1400 – 1550 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Italia
The Florentine Renaissance
Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo: antiquity becomes again an aesthetic norm and an intellectual programme.
La construcción europea no empezó en 1950. Este hilo une la herencia antigua, la matriz judeocristiana y la Unión contemporánea.
36 acontecimientos
1400 – 1550 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Italia
Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo: antiquity becomes again an aesthetic norm and an intellectual programme.
1410 Guerra Edad Media Lituania
Poles and Lithuanians break the Teutonic Order and redraw the Baltic.
1415 Acontecimiento Edad Media Chequia
Condemned at Constance, the Czech reformer becomes a national martyr and a forerunner of Luther.
1432 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Bélgica
In Ghent Van Eyck completes the altarpiece that inaugurates oil painting and the Northern Renaissance.
1443 Guerra Edad Media Albania
Twenty-five years of resistance to the Ottomans make him a hero of Christendom.
1453 Acontecimiento Edad Media Grecia
Byzantine scholars flee to Italy with their manuscripts, feeding the Renaissance directly.
1453 Acontecimiento Edad Media Turquía
Mehmed II ends the Eastern Roman Empire; Europe’s commercial and intellectual horizon shifts.
1457 Figura Edad Media Moldavia
Forty-seven years of resistance to the Ottomans and of monastic foundations.
1463 Guerra Edad Media Bosnia y Herzegovina
Four centuries of rule begin; a large share of the population converts to Islam.
1492 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas España
The fall of Granada, the decree expelling the Jews, Columbus’s departure: three ruptures in a single year.
1498 Descubrimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Portugal
The sea route to the spices opens; Europe’s economy shifts from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.
1499 Guerra Renacimiento y Reformas Suiza
The Confederation becomes de facto free of the Holy Roman Empire, formally recognised in 1648.
1506 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Ciudad del Vaticano
Bramante, Michelangelo then Bernini build the largest Christian edifice in the world.
1516 Texto Renacimiento y Reformas Países Bajos
The return to biblical sources opens the way to the Reformation and to modern textual criticism.
1516 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Montenegro
Power passes to the metropolitans of Cetinje: an Orthodox theocracy unique in Europe.
1517 Texto Renacimiento y Reformas Alemania
At Wittenberg, Luther challenges indulgences. His German Bible founds the modern language and fractures Western Christendom.
1517 Texto Renacimiento y Reformas Bielorrusia
The first book printed in Ruthenian appears in Prague, a year after Erasmus.
1523 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Suecia
Break with Denmark and with Rome: the birth of the modern Lutheran Swedish state.
1526 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Hungría
The Hungarian army is annihilated by Suleiman. The kingdom is partitioned for 150 years.
1534 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Reino Unido
Henry VIII breaks with Rome and declares himself head of the Church of England.
1536 Religión Renacimiento y Reformas Dinamarca
The Church becomes a state Church; universal religious instruction prepares national literacy.
1536 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Suiza
The Institutes of the Christian Religion make Geneva a centre of the European Reformation.
1536 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Eslovaquia
After Mohács, Bratislava becomes capital and coronation city of the Hungarian kingdom.
1539 Institución Renacimiento y Reformas España
Francisco de Vitoria founds modern international law by questioning the legitimacy of conquest.
1539 Texto Renacimiento y Reformas Francia
Francis I imposes French in public acts: the vernacular supplants Latin in administration.
1548 Texto Renacimiento y Reformas Finlandia
Mikael Agricola creates written Finnish so that Scripture is accessible to all.
1550 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Eslovenia
Primož Trubar publishes a catechism and a primer: the birth of the written language.
1565 Guerra Renacimiento y Reformas Malta
The Order of Saint John repels the Ottoman army; all Europe follows the siege.
1566 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Bosnia y Herzegovina
The architect Mimar Hayruddin completes a work that became the symbol of Bosnian intermixing.
1569 Tratado Renacimiento y Reformas Polonia Lituania
Poland and Lithuania form a joint Commonwealth: elective monarchy and a powerful parliament.
1571 Guerra Renacimiento y Reformas Chipre
The fall of Famagusta shortly precedes Lepanto; a Turkish-speaking community settles.
1573 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Polonia
The nobility guarantees religious peace while Europe sinks into wars of religion.
1579 Institución Renacimiento y Reformas Lituania
A Jesuit foundation, it becomes the intellectual hearth of the grand duchy.
1581 Acontecimiento Renacimiento y Reformas Países Bajos
The United Provinces depose their sovereign: one of the first texts asserting that power serves the people.
1588 Tratado Renacimiento y Reformas Bielorrusia
A code in the Ruthenian language, among the most advanced in Europe of its time.
1600 Tratado Renacimiento y Reformas Rumanía
A brief union of the three principalities, later the founding symbol of Romanian unity.