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53v: Saint George and the Dragon (I. M.), f.53v (1475–1500) The Heures de Charles d'Angoulême is a book of hours commissioned in the late 15th century, probably around 1480, by Charles, Count of Angoulême, father of king Francis I of France. It is now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, under the number Latin 1173.
It focused on recorded history since the invention of writing, leaving prehistory [b] to other fields, such as archaeology. [7] Today, history has a broader scope as one of the disciplines interested in human history before the invention of writing. [8] [c] It is controversial whether history is a social science or forms part of the humanities.
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1500 to 1799 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1500 and 1799. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
The year 1500 was not a leap year in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The year 1500 was the last year of the 15th century and the first year of the 16th century. The year was seen as being especially important by many Christians in Europe , who thought it would bring the beginning of the end of the world .
Hieronymus Brunschwygk – Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus (Simple book on the art of distillation) [4] Desiderius Erasmus – Adagia (Paris) [ 5 ] Johannes Trithemius – Steganographia (approximate year) [ 6 ]
1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time. [ 2 ] 1500 BC : Coalescence of a number of cultural traits including undecorated pottery, megalithic burials, and millet-bean-rice agriculture indicate the beginning of the Mumun Pottery Period on the Korean peninsula .
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day.. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history
The first of the eight books is a general picture of the history of Europe from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the beginning of the 15th century; the second book actually begins to discuss the history of Florence, with the narration of the feud between Buondelmenti/Donati and Uberti/Amidei, that according to tradition corroborated by ...