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.
36 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.
1506 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Vatikanstadt
Bramante, Michelangelo then Bernini build the largest Christian edifice in the world.
1516 Text Renaissance und Reformationen Niederlande
The return to biblical sources opens the way to the Reformation and to modern textual criticism.
1516 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Montenegro
Power passes to the metropolitans of Cetinje: an Orthodox theocracy unique in Europe.
1517 Text Renaissance und Reformationen Deutschland
At Wittenberg, Luther challenges indulgences. His German Bible founds the modern language and fractures Western Christendom.
1517 Text Renaissance und Reformationen Belarus
The first book printed in Ruthenian appears in Prague, a year after Erasmus.
1523 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Schweden
Break with Denmark and with Rome: the birth of the modern Lutheran Swedish state.
1526 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Ungarn
The Hungarian army is annihilated by Suleiman. The kingdom is partitioned for 150 years.
1534 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Vereinigtes Königreich
Henry VIII breaks with Rome and declares himself head of the Church of England.
1536 Religion Renaissance und Reformationen Dänemark
The Church becomes a state Church; universal religious instruction prepares national literacy.
1536 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Schweiz
The Institutes of the Christian Religion make Geneva a centre of the European Reformation.
1536 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Slowakei
After Mohács, Bratislava becomes capital and coronation city of the Hungarian kingdom.
1539 Institution Renaissance und Reformationen Spanien
Francisco de Vitoria founds modern international law by questioning the legitimacy of conquest.
1539 Text Renaissance und Reformationen Frankreich
Francis I imposes French in public acts: the vernacular supplants Latin in administration.
1548 Text Renaissance und Reformationen Finnland
Mikael Agricola creates written Finnish so that Scripture is accessible to all.
1550 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Slowenien
Primož Trubar publishes a catechism and a primer: the birth of the written language.
1565 Krieg Renaissance und Reformationen Malta
The Order of Saint John repels the Ottoman army; all Europe follows the siege.
1566 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Bosnien und Herzegowina
The architect Mimar Hayruddin completes a work that became the symbol of Bosnian intermixing.
1569 Vertrag Renaissance und Reformationen Polen Litauen
Poland and Lithuania form a joint Commonwealth: elective monarchy and a powerful parliament.
1571 Krieg Renaissance und Reformationen Zypern
The fall of Famagusta shortly precedes Lepanto; a Turkish-speaking community settles.
1573 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Polen
The nobility guarantees religious peace while Europe sinks into wars of religion.
1579 Institution Renaissance und Reformationen Litauen
A Jesuit foundation, it becomes the intellectual hearth of the grand duchy.
1581 Ereignis Renaissance und Reformationen Niederlande
The United Provinces depose their sovereign: one of the first texts asserting that power serves the people.
1588 Vertrag Renaissance und Reformationen Belarus
A code in the Ruthenian language, among the most advanced in Europe of its time.
1600 Vertrag Renaissance und Reformationen Rumänien
A brief union of the three principalities, later the founding symbol of Romanian unity.