Skaryna’s Bible

Name: Skaryna’s Bible
Start: 1517

The first book printed in Ruthenian appears in Prague, a year after Erasmus.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1517 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year Luther’s 95 Theses Germany
19 years earlier Vasco da Gama reaches India Portugal
25 years earlier 1492 Spain
1 year earlier Erasmus edits the Greek New Testament Netherlands
1 year earlier Ecclesiastical principality Montenegro
6 years later Gustav Vasa Sweden
9 years later Disaster of Mohács Hungary
11 years earlier Building of St Peter’s Vatican City

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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.
Reformation and wars of religion 1517 – 1648 Christendom splits and Europe is redrawn.

Countries involved

Belarus

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What was written of it

Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.

Déclaration du 9 mai 1950 1950

Schuman Declaration, Salon de l’Horloge, Paris