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Henry the Navigator, was an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and the Age of Discoveries in total.
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The Yongle Emperor (2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424), formerly romanized as the Yung-lo or Yonglo Emperor, was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.
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Zheng He, formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming Dynasty. Zheng commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433.
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Donatello was commissioned to carve a statue of David. The commission came from the operai of the cathedral of Florence, who intended to decorate the buttresses of the tribunes of the cathedral with 12 statues of prophets.
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The Gutenberg press with its wooden and later metal movable type printing brought down the price of printed materials and made such materials available for the masses.
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The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France for control of the French throne.
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The capture of Constantinople marked the end of the Roman Empire, an imperial state which had lasted for nearly 1,500 years.
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ias departed circa August 1487, rounding the southernmost tip of Africa in January, 1488. The Portuguese (possibly Dias himself) named this point of land the Cape of Good Hope.
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Treaty of Tordesillas agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.
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Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast.
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portriat of Lisa Gheradini, so they say. It's the most popular portriat by anyone.
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It took him a bit over four years, from July of 1508 to October of 1512. Pope Julius II asked him to paint the ceiling.
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It was part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
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The 33-year-old Martin Luther posted theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
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The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of accepting that the aims of princes—such as glory and survival—can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends.
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Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right.
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Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death.
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Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
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As the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism after the short-lived Protestant reign of her half-brother.
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Elizabeth I was crowned Queen by Owen Oglethorpe, bishop of Carlisle at Westminster Abbey, a little less than two months after the death of Mary I.
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The East India Company originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and more properly called the Honourable East India Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company formed for pursuing trade with the East Indies but which ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent, North-West Frontier Province and Balochistan.
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The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia
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The cause of Shakespeare's death is unknown, he died at 53 years old.
