CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 

 1200-1850 



(The date of a discovery is the date of first publication, where 

 this is known.) 



1202. Arabic numeration introduced into Europe by 



Leonardo of Pisa (Liber Abaci) ; it spread 

 slowly, and did not become universal till the 

 middle of the seventeenth century. 



1214-1294. Roger Bacon. 



1265-1321. Dante. 



1271-1295. Travels of Marco Polo. 



1304-1374. Petrarch. 



1 324?-! 384. Wycliffe. 



I34O?-I400. Chaucer. 



1410. Wood-engraving introduced about this time. 



1423. Earliest known block-book. 



1450? Mazarin Bible, printed by moveable types. 



1453. Taking of Constantinople by the Turks. 



I4(56?-I536. Erasmus. 



1471-1528. Albert Durer. 



1472-1543. Copernicus. 



1475-1564. Michael Angelo. 



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. 

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