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Timeline charts · 233 events · 1501–1650

Renaissance — 1501 to 1650

Reformation, conquest, and the world drawn whole. The whole era as one printed chronology, sectioned by century.

Renaissance — 1501 to 1650

233 events · 1501–1650 · Saeculum · sample of the first 8 rows

Renaissance — 1501 to 1650. Reformation, conquest, and the world drawn whole. The whole era as one printed chronology, sectioned by century.
DateEventRegionTheme
1500–1599
1501Amerigo Vespucci Maps a New WorldSouth AmericaExploration
1501First Africans Shipped to HispaniolaNorth AmericaPolitics
Jul 1501Ismail Crowned Shah of PersiaMiddle EastReligion
1502Montezuma II Takes the Mexica ThroneNorth AmericaPolitics
1503Leonardo Begins the Mona LisaEuropeCulture
18 Aug 1503Julius II Takes the KeysEuropeReligion
1504Babur Seizes KabulCentral AsiaPolitics
8 Sep 1504Michelangelo's David Takes His StandEuropeCulture

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