1400 – 1550 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Italien
The Florentine Renaissance
Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo: antiquity becomes again an aesthetic norm and an intellectual programme.
Der europäische Aufbau begann nicht 1950. Dieser Faden verbindet das antike Erbe, die jüdisch-christliche Matrix und die heutige Union.
12 Ereignisse
1400 – 1550 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Italien
Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo: antiquity becomes again an aesthetic norm and an intellectual programme.
1410 Krieg Mittelalter Litauen
Poles and Lithuanians break the Teutonic Order and redraw the Baltic.
1415 Ereignis Mittelalter Tschechien
Condemned at Constance, the Czech reformer becomes a national martyr and a forerunner of Luther.
1432 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Belgien
In Ghent Van Eyck completes the altarpiece that inaugurates oil painting and the Northern Renaissance.
1443 Krieg Mittelalter Albanien
Twenty-five years of resistance to the Ottomans make him a hero of Christendom.
1453 Ereignis Mittelalter Griechenland
Byzantine scholars flee to Italy with their manuscripts, feeding the Renaissance directly.
1453 Ereignis Mittelalter Türkei
Mehmed II ends the Eastern Roman Empire; Europe’s commercial and intellectual horizon shifts.
1457 Person Mittelalter Moldau
Forty-seven years of resistance to the Ottomans and of monastic foundations.
1463 Krieg Mittelalter Bosnien und Herzegowina
Four centuries of rule begin; a large share of the population converts to Islam.
1492 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Spanien
The fall of Granada, the decree expelling the Jews, Columbus’s departure: three ruptures in a single year.
1498 Entdeckung Renaissance und Reformationen Portugal
The sea route to the spices opens; Europe’s economy shifts from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.
1499 Krieg Renaissance und Reformationen Schweiz
The Confederation becomes de facto free of the Holy Roman Empire, formally recognised in 1648.