He left in 1490, possibly to work under Martin Schongauer, the leading engraver of Northern Europe, but who died shortly before Dürer's arrival at Colmar in 1492.

In early 1492 Dürer travelled to Basel to stay with another brother of Martin Schongauer, the goldsmith Georg.

That Cão, on his second voyage of 1484-1486, was accompanied by Martin Behaim ( as alleged on the latters Nuremberg globe of 1492 ) is very doubtful ; but we know that the explorer revisited the Congo and erected two more pillars beyond the furthest of his previous voyage.

The worldly excesses of the secular Renaissance Church, epitomized by the era of Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), intensified during the Reformation under Pope Leo X ( 1513 – 1522 ), whose campaign to raise funds in the German states to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica by supporting use of indulgences served as a key impetus for Martin Luther's 95 Theses.

Martin Behaim, eastern hemisphere of his globe made in Nuremberg in 1492.

Martin Behaim, western hemisphere of his globe made in Nuremberg in 1492.

* Martin Behaim's Erdapfel 1492 globe gores at the American Geographical Society Library Digital Collection

The oldest surviving terrestrial globe is the Erdapfel, created by Martin Behaim in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1492.

" Egrisilla " appears on the globe made in Nuremberg by Martin Behaim in 1492, where it appears on the southernmost part of the peninsula of Hoch India, “ High India ” or “ India Superior ”, on the eastern side of the Sinus Magnus (" Great Gulf ", the Gulf of Thailand ): there Egrisilla is identified with the inscription, das lant wird genant egtisilla, (“ the land called Egrisilla ”).

The principal source is an inscription on Martin Behaim's 1492 Nuremberg globe which reads ( in English translation ):

# 1492 Nuremberg globe of Martin Behaim-omits Satanazes, first with inscription relating legend.

One of the chief early descriptions of the heritage of Antillia is inscribed on the globe which the geographer Martin Behaim made at Nuremberg in 1492.

Many major events caused Europe to change around the turn of the 16th century, starting with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the fall of Muslim Spain and the discovery of the Americas in 1492, and Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation in 1517.

Cipangu described on the 1492 Erdapfel | Martin Behaim globe.

As will be discussed below, Cnoyen's summary was the basis for the depiction of the Arctic region on many maps, one of the earliest being Martin Behaim's 1492 globe.

Whether or not the Inventio is the source of the medieval concept of the North Pole as a magnetic mountain surrounded by a circular continent divided by four powerful rivers, maps as early as Martin Behaim's 1492 globe depict the region in this way.

It is the only Irish site designated on Martin Behaim's world map of 1492.

He later obtained the livings of Combe Martin, Devon, of Great Grimsby and on 14 June 1492 he was instituted as rector of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.

" The oldest surviving terrestrial globe, by Martin Behaim in 1492 ( before Columbus ' voyage ), labels the entire Asian subcontinent region as " India ".

* March 30 – Adam Ries, German mathematician ( b. 1492 )

Adam Ries ( 1492 – March 30, 1559 ) was a German mathematician.

Pope Innocent VIII ( 1432 – 1492 ) finally granted the use of butter, in a written permission known as the ' Butter Letter ' or Butterbrief in 1490, giving permission to Saxony to use milk and butter in the North German Stollen fruit cakes.

Thus were formed a variety of languages specific to the Jewish community ; perhaps the most notable of these are Yiddish in Europe ( mainly from German ) and Ladino ( from Spanish ), originally in al-Andalus but spreading to other locations, mainly around the Mediterranean, due to the 1492 expulsion of practicing Jews from Spain and the persecution by the Inquisition of the conversos.

* Adam Ries ( 1492 – 1559 ), German mathematician

In essence, Puerto Rican rap became the voice of Puerto Rican youth like dancehall and rap music are methods of expression for their Jamaican and lower-class U. S. youth counterparts as they made it in France too since 2003 " 1492 Army ".

Henry VII made peace with France in 1492 and the war against Scotland was abandoned because of the Western Rebellion of 1497.

The first explorations and conquests were made by the Spanish and the Portuguese, immediately following their own final reconquest of Iberia in 1492.

There are reports of contact made before the 1492 voyages of Christopher Columbus and the age of discovery between First Nations, Inuit and those from other continents.

Nevertheless, the colony rebounded and survived until the Little Ice Age made the land marginal for European life-styles in the 15th century ( shortly before Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492 ).

Sir William Calthorpe made presentations to the rectory of Beeston in 1460, 1481, and 1492

The stained-glass windows were made in 1492 by the Florentine artist Alessandro Agolanti, known also as il Bidello, based on cartoons by Ghirlandaio.

Christopher Columbus made La Gomera his last port of call before crossing the Atlantic in 1492.

Having been made Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland in 1492, and having arranged a dispute between the Scots and the Dutch, Elphinstone's later years were mainly spent in the foundation of the University of Aberdeen.

After the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 and the expulsion of Jews from Spain ( 1492 ) and Portugal ( 1498 ), many Jews made their way to the Holy Land.

The Discovery of America and the conquest of Granada, in 1492, made Jerez one of the most prosperous cities of Andalusia through trade and its proximity to the ports of Seville and Cadiz.

Columbus made his first voyage in 1492.

Christopher Columbus was the first when, in 1492, in an attempt to reach the Indies by sailing westward, he made landfall on an island in what is now The Bahamas.

Adriano Martínez, a former executive of Habanos SA, confirmed in Min Ron Nee's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Post-Revolution Havana Cigars that the Cohíba Línea 1492 was made to fill the gap left by the discontinuation of Davidoff.

* Santa María, in which Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to America in 1492.

Diego was made a page at the Spanish court in 1492, the year his father embarked on his first voyage.

It is estimated that Jews made up 6 % or more of the population of Sicily in 1492.

In 1492, contact with the New World was initially made by Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator employed by the Spanish, followed in 1497 by John Cabot, a Venetian navigator employed by the English.

The first printed edition of Niccolò ’ s account was made in 1492 in the original Latin by Cristoforo da Bollate and dedicated to Pietro Cara, who was going on a journey to India.

In October 1492 Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the Americas, and thereafter Spanish settlers began to come into contact with a host of native American languages.