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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. [3] While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made ...
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Participants: France. England. Context: Hundred Years’ War. Key People: John Talbot, 1st earl of Shrewsbury. Battle of Castillon, (July 17, 1453), the concluding battle of the Hundred Years’ War between France and England. The French had won Guyenne and Gascony back from English rule in 1451, but their long-unfamiliar regime soon proved ...
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1. February – Alexăndrel retakes the throne of Moldavia, in his long struggle with Petru Aron. 2. February 22 – William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas is killed by James II of Scotland, at Stirling Castle. 3. March 17 – Reconquista – Battle of Los Alporchones (around the city of Lorca in Murcia): The combined forces of the Kingdom of Castile, and its subsidiary kingdom of Murcia, defeat the Emirate of Granada. 4. March 19 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the last to be crowned in Ro...
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1. A major volcanic eruption, 1452/1453 mystery eruption, has a subsequent global cooling effect (the eruption releases more sulfatethan any other event in the previous 700 years). 2. Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers the islands of Corvo and Flores, in the Azores. 3. Battle of Bealach nam Broig, a Scottish clanbattle. 4. Edinburgh officially becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Scotland.
February 6 – Joanna, Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)March 10 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon, Aragonese king and first king of a united Spain (by marriage to Isabella of Castile) (d. 1516)April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (d. 1519)February 14 – Konrad VII the White, Duke of OleśnicaFebruary 22 – William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas (b. 1425)April 20 – Reinhard III, Count of Hanau (1451–1452) (b. 1412)Leonardo Da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath who lived during the Renaissance. He is famous for his paintings. [1] Leonardo is head Ultras of the Sud curve. He was also a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and writer.
Events. March 8 – Antoine Escalin des Eymars, the French ambassador, returns from Constantinople with promises of Ottoman aid in a war against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
