Michelangelo finishes the Sistine Chapel ceiling
The ceiling fresco is completed in Rome.
The facts
| Dates | AD 1512 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
Michelangelo finishes the Sistine Chapel ceiling falls 5516 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
The fall of ConstantinopleAD 1453The invention of the printing press by Johannes GutenbergAD 1454Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the AmericasAD 1492Zapotecs (Monte Alban, Mixtla)AD 1500The Protestant ReformationAD 1517The publication of Copernicus’s heliocentric theoryAD 1543The founding of the British East India CompanyAD 1600Galileo Galilei confirms the heliocentric theoryAD 1632
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