| 1241. | Mongol victory in Liegnitz in Silesia. | |
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| Huss burnt (1415). | ||
| 1417. | The Great Schism ended. | |
| 1453. | Ottoman Turks under Muhammad II took Constantinople. | |
| 1480. | Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow, threw off the Mongol allegiance. | |
| 1481. | Death of the Sultan Muhammad II while preparing for the conquest of Italy. | |
| 1486. | Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope. | |
| 1492. | Columbus crossed the Atlantic to America. | |
| 1498. | Maximilian I became Emperor. | |
| 1498. | Vasco da Gama sailed round the Cape to India. | |
| 1499. | Switzerland became an independent republic. | |
| 1500. | Charles V born. | |
| 1509. | Henry VIII King of England. | |
| 1513. | Leo X Pope. | |
| 1515. | Francis I King of France. | |
| 1520. | Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan (to 1566), who ruled from Bagdad to Hungary. Charles V Emperor. | |
| 1525. | Baber won the battle of Panipat, captured Delhi, and founded the Mogul Empire. | |
| 1527. | The German troops in Italy, under the Constable of Bourbon, took and pillaged Rome. |
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