1400s / 15th century history on the 21st of May
1471 : Albrecht Dürer the German painter was born in Nuremberg, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (died in 1528 aged 56).
1471 : Albrecht Dürer the German painter was born in Nuremberg, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (died in 1528 aged 56).
1506 : Christopher Columbus the Italian explorer died aged 54 (born in 1451).
1536 : Anne Boleyn, the 2nd wife of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
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1804 : Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed the Emperor of the French by the French Senate. This was the start of his 10 year reign until 1814.
1510 : Sandro Botticelli the Italian painter died aged 65 (born in 1445).
1770 : Marie Antoinette married Louis-Auguste. The future queen of France was 14 years old and the future king of France was 15 years old.
1618 : Johannes Kepler confirmed his discovery of the third law of planetary motion, which he first discovered 2 months earlier on the 8th of March but originally rejected the idea.
1643 : Louis XIV became King of France aged 4 years old, when his father Louis XIII died.
1373 : Julian of Norwich had visions of Jesus while during a life-threatening illness, which were later featured in her book Revelations of Divine Love. The book is the earliest surviving book in English written by a woman.
1364 : Jagiellonian University was founded in Kraków. It is the oldest university in Poland since it was founded over 657 years ago (as of 2021).