Building of St Peter’s

Name: Building of St Peter’s
Start: 1506

Bramante, Michelangelo then Bernini build the largest Christian edifice in the world.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1506 — the context national timelines leave out.

8 years earlier Vasco da Gama reaches India Portugal
11 years later Luther’s 95 Theses Germany
14 years earlier 1492 Spain
10 years later Erasmus edits the Greek New Testament Netherlands
10 years later Ecclesiastical principality Montenegro
11 years later Skaryna’s Bible Belarus
17 years later Gustav Vasa Sweden
20 years later Disaster of Mohács Hungary

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Renaissance 1400 – 1600 Printing, humanism, and the opening of ocean routes.

Countries involved

Vatican City

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What was written of it

A day will come when all of you, nations of the continent, without losing your distinct qualities and your glorious individuality, will merge closely into a higher unity, and will form the European brotherhood.

Victor Hugo 1849

Opening address to the Peace Congress, Paris

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