The Protestant Reformation
The Reformation begins. Fused on the chart's artwork into the entry for the Sistine Chapel ceiling; separated here.
The facts
| Dates | AD 1517 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
The Protestant Reformation falls 5521 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 invention of the printing press by Johannes GutenbergAD 1454Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the AmericasAD 1492Zapotecs (Monte Alban, Mixtla)AD 1500Michelangelo finishes the Sistine Chapel ceilingAD 1512The publication of Copernicus’s heliocentric theoryAD 1543The founding of the British East India CompanyAD 1600Galileo Galilei confirms the heliocentric theoryAD 1632The Industrial RevolutionAD 1760 – AD 1840
Now see where it sits
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