Martin Luther Issue 39 | 1993 Click here to order the downloadable audio version

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1452

Leonardo da Vinci born

1453

Turks capture Contantinople

1455

Gutenberg completes printing the Bible [Bible ] using movable type

1469

(probably) Erasmus born

Lorenzo de’ Medici rules Florence;
Ferdinand and Isabella marry

1470

Portuguese explorers discover Gold Coast of Africa

1471

Thomas á Kempis, author of The Imitation of Christ, dies

1473

Copernicus born

1478

Spanish Inguisition set up

1483

Born at Eisleben, November 10

1484

Parents, Hans and Margaretha Luder [Hans and Margaretha Luder ] , move family to Mansfeld, where Hans works in copper mines

Ulrich Zwingli born

1485

Treaty of Leipzig divides Saxony

1491

Henry VIII born

1492

Attends school in Mansfeld

Spanish forces conquer city of Granada, expelling Islamic Moors from Iberian peninsula; Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas [Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas ]

1493

The pope divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

1495

Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper”

1496

Menno Simons born

John Cabot reaches coast of Newfoundland; Vasco de Gama discovers west coast of India

1497

Attends school in Magdeburg

Melanchthon [Melanchthon ] born

Albrecht Durer paints Apocalypse

1498

Attends school in Eisenach

Savonarola burned at the stake in Florence

1499

Swiss gain independence

1500

Future Charles V born

1501

Enters University of Erfurt

1502

Receives B.A. at Erfurt

Frederick, elector of Saxony, founds Wittenberg University

1505

Earns M.A. at Erfurt; begins law studies; in thunderstorm on July 2, vows to become a monk; enters Order of Augustinian Hermits

John Knox born

1506

Pope Julius orders work on St. Peter’s in Rome; Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”

1507

Ordained and celebrates first Mass

1508

Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel ceiling

1509

Becomes bachelor ...