The 1480sBC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1489 BC to December 31, 1480 BC. 1487 BC—Amphictyon, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, legendary King of Athens...
The 2nd millennium BC spanned the years 2000 BC to 1001 BC. In the Ancient Near East, it marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age....
The 1470s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1479 BC to December 31, 1470 BC. c. 1478 BC–1390 BC—Hand mirror, Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, is made...
century BC – State leaders in the 14th century BC – State leaders by year This is a list of state leaders in the 15th century BC (1500–1401 BC). Egypt:...
The 1460s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1469 BC to December 31, 1460 BC. c. 1469 BC—In the Battle of Megiddo, Egypt defeats Canaan. It is the...
1490s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1499 BC to December 31, 1490 BC. Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC–1492 BC). 1500 BC: Coalescence...
15th century BC was the century that lasted from 1500 BC to 1401 BC. 1504 BC – 1492 BC: Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant. 1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle...
Construction begins on St. Peter's Basilica. Birth of Andrea Palladio. 1490s – 1480s – Vitruvius' treatise De architectura and Leon Battista Alberti's De re...
Autodidactus by Ibn al-Nafis (1270s) The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian (1480s) The Puruṣaparīkṣā by Vidyapati The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan (1678)...
century: The Arquebus (also spelled Harquebus) is invented, possibly in Spain. 1480s: Mariner's astrolabe in Portuguese circumnavigation of Africa 16th century:...
contemporary setting, not a classical one. Primavera (late 1470s or early 1480s) by Sandro Botticelli Venus Anadyomene (c. 1525) by Titian Venus of Urbino...
September 1473 – February 1474). The last military threat to Edward IV's rule. 1480s–1551: Sweating sickness 1485: Polydore Vergil, an Italian cleric commissioned...
and the Country Mouse') (about 35 BC), Latin poem, II.VI.77–115 of the Satires by Horace "The Twa Mice" (circa 1480s), Scots adaption of "The Town Mouse...
Botticelli's painting Pallas and the Centaur, probably painted sometime in the 1480s, Athena is the personification of chastity, who is shown grasping the forelock...
people several times, including on four heraldic shield engravings of the 1480s which depict wild men holding the coat of arms of the print's patrons. Each...
barefoot at all times or only wearing sandals in any weather. From the 1480s, the poulaine was replaced by the duckbill, which had a flat front but soon...
sculpture and ruins, almost no direct evidence of this work survives. By the 1480s, prominent architects, such as Francesco di Giorgio (1439–1502) and Giuliano...
footwear and expanding to awkward lengths, poulaines fell from fashion in the 1480s and were seldom revived, although they are considered an influence on some...
Matthaeus de Cheselles (appointed 1436), Pierre Fridaricus (served from the 1480s), Pedro Xague (appointed 1560), and Jerónimo Clavijo (appointed 1564). The...
volume measures. When planning his journey across the Atlantic Ocean in the 1480s, Columbus mistakenly assumed that the mile referred to in the Arabic estimate...
free atmosphere. The first reliable account of the city is dated to the 1480s and contains publicly issued legal notices, which suggests that the city...
state. Savonarola was a priest from Ferrara. He came to Florence in the 1480s. By proclaiming predictions and through vigorous preaching, he won the people...
in Brussels, but Bruges was the world center of commerce, though by the 1480s the inevitable silting of its harbor was bringing its economic hegemony...
than the route around Africa, but Afonso rejected his proposal. In the 1480s, Columbus and his brother proposed a plan to reach the East Indies by sailing...
(not shown). Rennzeug Armour designed for the Kolbenturnier, dated to the 1480s. The Kolbenturnier was a late form of the tournament, unlike the joust played...
Tithonus. The Athenian playwright Aeschylus however in his fifth-century BC play Agamemnon writes that Zephyrus is the son of the goddess Gaia (the mother...
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