Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Americas
Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Americas
The facts
| Dates | AD 1492 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Americas falls 5496 years out from Creation at the centre. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.
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Who else was alive
Inca empire 1400 Pueblo people gathern large townsAD 1438 – AD 1538The construction of Machu PicchuAD 1450The fall of ConstantinopleAD 1453The invention of the printing press by Johannes GutenbergAD 1454Zapotecs (Monte Alban, Mixtla)AD 1500Michelangelo finishes the Sistine Chapel ceilingAD 1512The Protestant ReformationAD 1517The publication of Copernicus’s heliocentric theoryAD 1543
Now see where it sits
Everything on this page has a place on one 45×37″ chart — and once you can see what came before and after it, it stops being a fact and starts being a story you can follow.