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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.
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.
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Jun 28, 2021 · By the 1490s Venetian women had distinctive fashions and customs. The German painter Albrecht Dürer captured the silhouette of a Venetian woman in a drawing made during his visit in 1495 (Fig. 6). As in Verona, the waistline is very high, and the various parts of the gamurra can be made of contrasting fabrics.
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 ...
Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published. Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan. Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent. Aldus Manutius moves to Venice. John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford. Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun.
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.
8 / 11. 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 ...
