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Christopher Columbus

1451 CE – 1506 CE · 55 years

The Genoese weaver’s son who convinced a queen, crossed an ocean, and changed the world forever — told in his own words in a first-person ePub.

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Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Khanate of Sibir

1490 CE – 1598 CE

Figure · Cusco, Tawantinsuyu (Inca Empire)

Pachacuti

1418 CE – 1471 CE

Conflict

Shaybanid Conquest of Transoxiana

1500 CE – 1510 CE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Golden Horde

1243 CE – 1502 CE

Figure · Florence, Milan, France

Leonardo da Vinci

1452 CE – 1519 CE

Conflict

Russo–Kazan Wars

1445 CE – 1556 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1451 CE and 1506 CE.

1453 CE Fall of Constantinople 1455 CE Wars of the Roses 1459 CE Sixty Dome Mosque 1460 CE Mapuche–Inca War 1462 CE Chimú–Inca War 1464 CE Wars of the Songhai Empire

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Royal Hill of Ambohimanga Landmark · Africa 1500 CE – still standing Byzantine Empire Polity · Europe 395 CE – 1453 CE Mediterranean Southern Route Trade route · Middle East 331 BCE – 1500 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Kilwa Kisiwani Landmark · Africa 900 CE – 1505 CE Khoiasan Polity · Africa 1500 BCE – 1500 CE
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