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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
11: ...ome – including many [[Native Americans]] – view him as responsible, directly or indirectl...
21: ...ant, and his mother was Susanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a woollens merchant. Christopher had thr... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...used in modern Spanish) ([[April 22]], [[1451]] – [[November 26]], [[1504]]) was [[Kings of Cast...
5: ...l de Beaumont]]. Finally she was great-great-granddaughter to [[Nuno Alvares Pereira]], Count de Barce...
7: She was great-granddaughter of [[John I of Castile]] and his wife [[Ele...
8: ...nez Perez, and his wife Beatriz Pereira, countess da Barcellos.
29: *[[Al-Andalus]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...o a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the ...
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
107: * [[1451]]: [[Concave lens]] for [[eyeglasses]]: [[Nichola...
133: * [[1714]]: [[Mercury thermometer]]: [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]]
145: ...]: [[Submarine]] [[Turtle (submarine)|Turtle]]: [[David Bushnell]] - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
22: * ''[[Last Judgment]]'' ([[1451]]), hospital of [[Beaune]], [[France]]
39: ...[[1450]]-[[1529]]), to whom a brilliant ''Mary Magdalen'' in the National Gallery is attributed. - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
7: ==Early origins: 911–1314==
10: ... nobles had never fully given up the dream of one day reconquering their homeland in Normandy; it was ...
12: ==Immediate precursors: 1314–1337==
13: ...rance|Louis X]], died in [[1316]], leaving only a daughter, [[Joan II of Navarre|Joan II]], who in 132...
15: ...had been set. When Philip V died in [[1322]], his daughters were put aside in favor of the last brothe... - Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
4: ...isch zur Laden zum Gutenberg''' (circa [[1398]] – [[February 3]], [[1468]]), a [[Holy Roman Empi...
9: ...e writing system, printed material was not as abundant as that of Renaissance Europe.
21: ...the Biblia Sacra dated 1455 went to Paris and was dated by the binder.
34: ... which is believed to have been printed between [[1451]] and [[1452]].
38: The [[Gutenberg Bible]]s surviving today are sometimes called the oldest surviving books ... - John Cabot (5966 bytes)
2: ...ularly credited as the modern discoverer of [[Canada]], or at least the region that would become that ...
6: ...[Genoa]], others [[Gaeta]]. The date was around [[1451]], but he moved to [[Venice]] in his youth, and l... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
14: | ''El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious'' (as written in tugra)
45: ...sition as gateway between Europe and Asia. In its day, the Ottoman Empire was also commonly referred t...
47: ...ised an area of over [[1 E13 m?|19.9m km²]]—though much of this was under indirect control ...
66: ...ng the [[Turkish War of Independence]] ([[1918]]–[[1923]]), and the [[Turkey|Republic of Turkey]...
83: ...50) and the Ottoman Penal code (1858).” (Haddad, Y.Y., Byron H. and Ellison F., Eds.) - Bosporus (3180 bytes)
18: ...llipoli]], and the Cimmerian Chersonesus, known today as the [[Crimea]].
20: ...nadoluhisari]] ([[1393]]) and [[Rumelihisari]] ([[1451]]). Its strategic importance remains high: severa...
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