Events in Science & History
15th Century
1400s
1409: Donatello
completes his sculputre, David.
1410s
1419: Publication
of Baccaccio's Decomeron.
1420s
1426: Masaccio's
painting, the Virgin Enthroned.
1430s
1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake.
1440s
1440: Printing
press using moveable type developed in Europe by Guttenberg.
1450s
1452: Completion
of the Medici Palace in Florence. Richard III of England born. Leonardo
Da Vinci born.
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1453: Constantinople falls
to the Turks and becomes part of the Otterman Empire.
1454-5 Guttenberg Bible
printed.
1455-85 Wars of the
Roses
1460s
1470s.
1473: Michelangelo
paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
1474: Caxton prints the
first book in English.
1478: Boticelli paints Primavera.
Establishment of the Spanish Inquistion.
1480s
1485: First
use of + and - signs in mathematics
1490s
1490: Leonardo
Da Vinci studies capillary action of liquids in narrow tubes.
1491: Henry VIII born
1492: Columbus discovers
the Islands of the east coast of Central America. First globe made by geographer
Martin Behaim.
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1498: Vasco Da Gama voyages
to India round the Cape of Good Hope
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