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July 8 – Vasco da Gama 's fleet departs from Lisbon, beginning his expedition to India. September 7 – Second Cornish Uprising in England: Perkin Warbeck lands near Land's End; on September 10 he is proclaimed as King in Bodmin. [3] September 28 – Battle of Rotebro: John, King of Denmark, defeats Sten Sture the Elder.
1490: Leonardo da Vinci completes painting the portrait Lady with an Ermine and (probably) paints Portrait of a Musician. Cima da Conegliano paints his Sacred Conversation now in Milan. c. 1490. Giovanni Bellini paints two Sacred Conversation s and a presumed portrait of Bartolomeo d'Alviano. Albrecht Dürer paints a Portrait Diptych of Dürer ...
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Jun 28, 2021 · The simplicity seen in Verona, which in the 1490s was part of the Republic of Venice, contrasts with the fashions of the court of Milan. Ambrogio da Predis’s profile portait of Bianca Maria Sforza, sister of Duke Ludovico il Moro (Fig. 4) illustrates a gamurra of voided silk velvet with the entire ground of the weave brocaded in gold; this textile qualifies as the “cloth-of-gold” that ...
Traditional date of the Battle of Glendale (Skye) between the Scottish clans MacDonald and MacLeod. Catholic missionaries arrive in the African Kingdom of Kongo. Pêro da Covilhã arrives in Ethiopia. Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany.
Wikipedia states a close number (240 km) but with a single source it would seem. Looking at the current world record (262 km/162 miles) for a 24-hour run, these numbers look even more unbelievable considering the chasquis would have pre-modern shoes, pre-modern roads and I would guess severe elevation variations to deal with.
Beginning in the 1430s, navigators sailing under the Portuguese flag explored from Africa's west coast all the way to the Cape of Good Hope, which they rounded in 1488. Most African works of art ...
