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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] navigator in [[Engla...
78: *[[Bartolomeu Dias]], (1450-1500), [[Portuguese]] explorer who first rounded ...
89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...ge of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Na...
18: ...]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little over 20 French and Scots. This allowed...
33: ...nfirmed that this was based on a distortion: she only objected to being tried by pro-English clergy wh...
38: ...] cemetery and threatened with summary execution unless she signed a confession and agreed to wear a d...
43: ...ree surviving members of Jeanne d'Arc's family. Unlike the original trial, the appellate process incl... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...s known as [[Venus figurines]] have been found mainly in central [[Europe]]. The [[Venus of Willendor...
6: ... stones were used for high quality sculpture and inlays. [[Clay]] was used for pottery and terra cott...
8: ...mong them are a wooden harp with gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
22: These are only a few of the many sculptures produced in ancient...
29: The Minoan culture developed mainly on [[Crete]], especially at [[Knossos]] and [[Ph... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
59: ...ad dissipated by the 13th century A.D. In about [[1450]], the [[Quechua]]-speaking [[Incas]] entered the...
158: ...niformly low 10%, with capital equipment charged only 5%. Bolivia's trade deficit was $460 million in ...
178: ...stizo Baroque". The colonial period produced not only the paintings of P鲥z de Holgu� Flores, Bitti... - Biography (6028 bytes)
8: ...habharata are also iographies. These biographies only detailed accomplishments. The [[Judaism|Jewish]...
16: ...nformation and knowledge. During this time, the only repositories of knowledge and records of early h... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
124: *[[Kamaleddin Behzad]] ([[1450]]-)
318: *[[Gerard David]] (ca.[[1450]]-[[1523]])
437: *[[Nicolas Froment]] (ca.[[1450]]-ca.[[1490]])
1151: *[[Eduard von Steinle]] ([[1810]]-[[1886]])
1152: *[[Théophile Steinlen]] ([[1859]]-[[1923]]) - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
3: ...g of the [[Renaissance]] is admittedly arbitrary, 1450 is used here.
29: ... center. The standardization effort consisted mainly of combining these two (Roman and [[Gallican cha...
36: ...uence, if only from the music of the synagogue. Only the smallest of scraps of ancient music have sur...
55: ...ent Rome|Roman]] drama with Christian stories--mainly the Gospel, the Passion, and the lives of the sa...
63: ...]]ic notation first appeared in western music, mainly a context-based method of rhythmic notation know... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...n European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The Gregorian calendar as promulgated i...
86: ...Sweden]] and the republics of [[Austria]] and [[Finland]] are admitted into the [[European Union]].
219: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/1 Today in History: January 1] - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
5: ...many flights of stairs, and water pressure could only provide running water to about 50 feet (15&...
188: |[[Sears Tower]]||1974||Present||1450 ft||442 m||1730 ft||527 m||11...
196: *[[Petronas Towers]] (only held one height category) - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...of "Joseph"; latinized Josquinus Pratensis) (c. [[1450]] – [[August 27]], [[1521]]) was a [[Dutch ...
6: ...t scholarship has shown that he was born around [[1450]], and did not go to Italy until the early [[1470...
10: Josquin only stayed in Ferrara for a year, departing in [[150...
14: ...n his treatises on composition; and his fame was only eclipsed after the beginning of the [[Baroque mu...
27: ...Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers L... - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
21: ...pointment was made at the suggestion of Angelico only after the archbishopric had been offered to him,...
23: ...ooperation of his pupil [[Benozzo Gozzoli]]. In [[1450]], Fra Angelico became Prior of the convent of Sa...
37: ...f execution, he undoubtedly falls far short, not only of his great naturalist contemporaries such as [... - Hieronymus Bosch (3386 bytes)
1: ...eronymus Bosch''', also '''Jeroen Bosch''', (c. [[1450]] – [[August]], [[1516]]) was a prolific [[...
16: Bosch never dated his paintings and signed only some of them. All in all, about 25 paintings rem... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
9: ...about [[1435]]. He was in [[Italy]] in [[1440]]-[[1450]], but his visit shows no result on his style, wh...
13: ...hilip.jpg|thumb|250px|Philip the Good, painted c. 1450 by Roger van der Weyden]]
15: ... used little underdrawing for his oil paintings, only blocking out the positions of the major elements...
21: * ''Madonna with Saints'' ([[1450]]), [[Stadel Institute]], [[Frankfurt]]
35: Some of these latter, and others, are only doubtfully attributed to the master. The ''Cruci... - Petrarch (10447 bytes)
1: ...px|From the ''Cycle of Famous Men and Women.'' c. 1450. Detached fresco. 247 x 153 cm. Galleria degli Uf...
19: ... for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirel... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
13: ...X of France|Louis X]], died in [[1316]], leaving only a daughter, [[Joan II of Navarre|Joan II]], who ...
15: ...nd not a daughter of Louis X), but precedent for only male heirs had been set. When Philip V died in [...
17: ... The war was a complete failure for England, and only [[Bordeaux]] and a narrow coastal strip now rema...
19: ...gest son of Philip IV, died in [[1328]], leaving only an infant daughter yet to be born. The senior li...
21: ...was his closest living male relative and was the only surviving male descendant of the senior line of ... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
14: ...different from one another that they almost certainly must have been independent in origin. At this ti...
16: ...gence of complex state societies in [[Crete]], mainland [[Greece]] and central [[Turkey]]. In China, p...
39: ...as almost all of [[Eurasia]]'s landmass, missing only [[western Europe]] and [[Japan]].
48: ...o one of the most remarkable forces growing from only a few followers to become the basis of a series ...
55: ... refers to the invention of the printing press in 1450s Germany, and to Life Magazine's comments on it. ... - Venice (22017 bytes)
10: ...dship of its mainland territories was relatively enlightened and the citizens of such towns as [[Berga...
12: ...ist|Winged Lion of St. Mark]], symbol of Venice. Only Venetian ships could efficiently transport the m...
14: ...self. The ''[[Cavalieri di San Marco]]'' was the only order of [[chivalry]] ever instituted in Venice,...
29: By [[1450]], more than 3,000 Venetian merchant ships were i...
35: Early in the [[15th century]], as new mainland territories were expanded, the first standing ... - Hittites (17910 bytes)
7: ...#1495;תי or ''HTY'' in the consonant-only [[Hebrew language|Hebrew script]]), which are al...
37: ... written in the [[17th century BC]] but survived only as copies made in the [[14th century BC|14th]] a...
46: ... For this reason, all the kings' reigns passed mainly by struggles and wars with neighbouring Assyrian...
54: *Middle Hittite Kingdom (1500 - [[1450 BC]])
55: *New Hittite Kingdom (Empire) (1450 - [[1180 BC]]): [[Suppiluliumas I]] conquers [[Sy... - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
18: ...ld, hence the name bestowed on this era. We have only hints of the advanced [[painting]] of the classi...
33: ...n, while interior space was entirely secondary. Only in the Late Post-Classic era did the great Maya ...
37: ...pliable enough to be worked with stone tools ... only hardening once removed from its bed. In additio...
41: ... as actual stone carvings used as a facade. Commonly, these would continue uninterrupted around an en...
48: These were commonly limestone platforms of typically less than four ...
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