. Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs. in 1460. 1445. Birth of Leonardo da Vinci, the great masterof the Florentine school of painting. 1447. The rights of the German Church are re-cognized by the Concordat with Rome. 1450. The insurrection of Jack Cade. He defeatsthe King, enters London, where he is finally executed. 1453. End of the English and French English retain Guernsey, Jersey and Fall of the Greek Empire. The Turks beseigeConstantinople with 300 ships and 300,000 men, andcapture it May 29th. Const
. Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs. in 1460. 1445. Birth of Leonardo da Vinci, the great masterof the Florentine school of painting. 1447. The rights of the German Church are re-cognized by the Concordat with Rome. 1450. The insurrection of Jack Cade. He defeatsthe King, enters London, where he is finally executed. 1453. End of the English and French English retain Guernsey, Jersey and Fall of the Greek Empire. The Turks beseigeConstantinople with 300 ships and 300,000 men, andcapture it May 29th. Constantine XL was its lastEmperor. Mohammed II., the conqueror of 300cities, twelve kingdoms and two empires, establishedthe empire of the Turks in the captured city. 1454. The University of Glasgow was Ivan the Great throws off the Mongol yoke and assumes the title of Czar. 1466. Death of Faust in Paris, whither he hadgone to sell his Latin edition of the Bible 1468. Death of John Guttenberg. 1471. Death of Thomas d Kempis. William Cax-ton establishes the first printing press at NINETEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES IN OUTLINE. 297 1473. Birth of Copernicus, the reviver of thePythagorean theory of the solar system. 1474. Birth of Michael Angelo, poet, painter,architect and sculptor. 1477. Artois and Burgundy united to the FrenchCrown. Watches invented at Nuremburg. 1479. Union of Aragon and Castile under Ferdi-nand and Isabella. 1483. Birth of Raphael Sanzio, the last of thegreat triumvirate of Italian painters. Martin Lutherwas born at Eisleben. 1484. The first auto da fe at Seville. The SpanishInquisition was established in 1481. It was first in-troduced in order to confiscate the property of theJews. During the three centuries that followed 30,000persons were executed, and 300,000 suffered in personor estate in Spain alone. 1485. The union of the two Roses in the Houseof Tudor terminates the thirty years civil war inEngland between the Houses of York and Lanc
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