Brunelleschi's dome
The largest brick dome ever, built without centring
For decades Florence's cathedral rose around a vast opening that nobody knew how to roof. Brunelleschi built it without wooden centring, laying some 4 million bricks in herringbone; it is still the largest brick dome.
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Brunelleschi's dome in Florence and the Aztec Empire are contemporaries. The dome was consecrated in 1436, and the Triple Alliance that created the Aztec Empire formed in 1428, eight years earlier. Share →
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 25 years earlier
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 17 years later
Asia
- c. 1424 Ulugh Beg's observatory — 12 years earlier
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 10 years later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 2 years later
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 14 years later
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 14 years later
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 9 years later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 36)
- Mehmed II (aged 4)
- Sigismund (aged 68)
- Sejong the Great (aged 39)
- Charles VII (aged 33)
- Murad II (aged 32)
- Pachacuti (aged 18)
- Louis XI (aged 13)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 0)
- Ulugh Beg (aged 42)