Part 15

1477-1576. Titian.

1483-1520. Raphael.

1483-1546. Martin Luther.

1492. First voyage of Columbus.

1497-1498. Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India by the Cape.

1516. More's Utopia.

1517. Luther's theses.

1519-1521. Mexico conquered by Cortez.

1519-1522. Circumnavigation of the globe by a ship of Magellan's squadron.

1530-1536. Brunfels' Herbarum vivæ eicones. Confession of Augsburg.

1532. Peru conquered by Pizarro.

1534. Society of Jesus founded by Loyola.

1539. Bock's New Kreutterbuch (without figures); 2nd ed. (with figures) 1546.

1542. Fuchs' Historia Stirpium.

1543. Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium. Vesalius' Fabrica Humani Corporis.

1545. Botanic garden at Padua founded.

1545-1564. Council of Trent.

1547. Botanic garden at Pisa founded.

1551. Belon's Histoire Naturelle des estranges poissons marins.

1551-1587. Gesner's Historia Animalium.

1553. Belon's De aquatilibus, etc., and his Observations de plusieurs singularitez, etc. (Travels in the Levant.)

1554. Rondelet's De piscibus marinis.

1555. Belon's Histoire de la nature des Oyseaux. Rondelet's Universæ aquatilium Historiæ pars altera.

1564-1616. Shakespeare.

1564-1642. Galileo.

1566. Revolt of the Netherlands.

1571. Battle of Lepanto (advance of the Turks checked).

1571-1630. Kepler.