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  1. Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
    20: ...he ruin. Even the stubby remnant disappeared in [[1480]], when the then-Sultan of Egypt, [[Qaitbay]], us...
  2. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    3: ...hington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round...
    5: ...s of expeditions to the Americas by a variety of peoples throughout time; see '''[[Pre-Columbian trans...
    11: ...ns, if not hundreds, of millions of [[indigenous people]]s, exploitation of the Americas by Europe, an...
    21: ...e younger brothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister...
    25: ... studied [[cartography]] with his brother Bartolomeo. Christopher received almost no formal education;...
  3. Elizabeth Woodville (6291 bytes)
    12: ...the queen arranged for her family, the most outrageous being when her 20-year-old brother John Woodvil...
    20: ...nd|Edward]] in [[St. George's Chapel, Windsor|St George's Chapel]] in [[Windsor Castle]].
    28: ...82), buried in [[St. George's Chapel, Windsor|St George's Chapel]], [[Windsor Castle]]
    34: ...ord, buried in [[St. George's Chapel, Windsor|St George's Chapel]], [[Windsor Castle]]
    36: * Bridget Plantagenet (1480-1517), nun at Dartford Priory, Kent
  4. Sackbut (3802 bytes)
    4: ... Ages]], a closer to exact date would be around [[1480]]. It evolved into what we know today as the '[[T...
  5. List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
    1: {{List_of_people}}
    42: ...tsuda]], (born [[1972]]), [[Japan|Japanese]] [[video game]] music composer
    74: *[[Philip Yeo|Yeo, Philip]], industrial and systems engineer
    75: *[[F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas|Yeo-Thomas, Edward]] (1901-1964), [[World War II|WW2]...
    76: *[[Michelle Yeoh|Yeoh, Michelle]] (born 1962), Chinese actor
  6. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    11: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian pai...
    51: *[[Albrecht Altdorfer]] ([[1480]]-[[1538]])
    69: *[[George Ault]] ([[1891]]-[[1948]])
    76: *[[Constantine Andreou]] ([[1917]]-)
    83: *[[Leonard Bahr]] ([[1905]]-[[1990]])
  7. Silk Road (23757 bytes)
    1: ...aߥ'', the term first used by [[Germany|German]] geographer [[Ferdinand von Richthofen]] in the [[19th...
    11: ...ased the capacity for [[prehistory|prehistoric]] peoples to carry heavier loads over greater distances...
    13: ...s without arousing the hostility of more settled peoples.
    43: ...ons somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value...
    52: ...o look at their complexion to see that they were people of another world than ours."'' ("Cathey and th...
  8. Rhodes (9349 bytes)
    9: == Geography ==
    17: The island was inhabited in the [[Neolithic]] period, although little remains of this c...
    41: ...]] of Egypt in [[1444]] and of [[Mehmed II]] in [[1480]]. Finally, however, Rhodes fell to the large arm...
    45: ...his community were [[Ladino language|Ladino]] (Judeo-Spanish) speakers. During [[World War II]] [[Nazi...
  9. Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpeg|thumb|Leonardo da Vinci]]
    2: ...masterly paintings, such as ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo)|The Last Supper]]'' and ''[[Mona Lisa]]''. ...
    7: Leonardo was born in [[Anchiano]], near [[Vinci, Ital...
    9: ...ost authorities therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not us...
    11: ...ear old Leonardo as an apprentice. In this role, Leonardo also worked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[...
  10. Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
    6: ...n countries, but not in the Kingdom of Castile & Leon!
    14: ...ove using religion as a means of controlling his people. He wanted the Jewish and Muslim religions wip...
    26: ...in the midst of all these threats, in August of [[1480]] the Sultan had attacked [[Italy]] itself, at th...
    42: The Inquisition was removed during [[Napoleon]]ic rule ([[1808]]–[[1812]]), but reinstit...
    44: ...''Moriscos'', or Moorish converts. About 125,000 people were tried by church tribunals as suspected he...
  11. Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
    2: '''Ferdinand Magellan''' (Spring [[1480]] – [[April 27]], [[1521]]; was a [[Portuga...
    7: ...ontinued his education, becoming interested in [[geography]] and [[astronomy]]. Some speculate that he...
    53: ...cate with the native peoples because his [[Malay people|Malay]] interpreter could understand their lan...
    64: ...], [[1521]], and were guided to [[Brunei]], [[Borneo]] by Moro pilots, who could navigate the shallow ...
    81: ...> <td>Juan de Acurio<!-- Acuario? -->, from [[Bermeo]]</td> <td > Pilot &nbsp; </td> </tr>
  12. John Cabot (5966 bytes)
    16: ...an]] according to [[Celts|Celtic]] legends. Some people think [[Newfoundland]] may have been found on ...
    20: ...but fast and able. The crew consisted of only 18 people. He departed on either [[May 2]] or [[May 20]...
  13. Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
    5: ... [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] with 1.5 million people
    46: ...a]] (Akimel O'otham) phrase, ''Ho Ho Kam'', "the people who have gone". They also lived in the [[Pueb...
    49: ... west of Mesa, which was already a city of 1,000 people; and a few miles northwest of a similar farmin...
    74: In [[1902]], President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] signed the [[Newlands Reclamation...
    76: On [[May 18]], [[1911]], the [[Theodore Roosevelt Dam]], then the largest masonry dam...
  14. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-15...
    25: *[[Theodor Adorno]], (1903-1969){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
    46: *[[Alcmaeon of Croton]], (5th century BC){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
  15. Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
    1: ...n end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military Order of Malta''' (...
    17: ...ypt in [[1444]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made ...
    27: ...rez d'Aleccio]] in the Hall of St Michael and St George, also known as the Throne Room, in the Grandma...
    41: ...ctive leadership, and readily capitulated to Napoleon. This was a terrible affront to most of the Kni...
    43: ... in the period [[1805]] to [[1879]], when [[Pope Leo XIII]] restored a Grand Master to the Order. This...

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