Extinction of the moa
Giant birds wiped out soon after people arrive
Giant flightless moa up to 3.6 m tall lived only in New Zealand. Polynesians arrived around 1300, and radiocarbon data suggest that by about 1445 every moa species had been hunted out, as printing was being invented in Europe.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — 16 years earlier
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — 5 years later
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 8 years later
Asia
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 1 year later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 7 years earlier
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 5 years later
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 5 years later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 45)
- Mehmed II (aged 13)
- Sejong the Great (aged 48)
- Charles VII (aged 42)
- Murad II (aged 41)
- Pachacuti (aged 27)
- Louis XI (aged 22)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 9)
- Ivan III (aged 5)
- Ulugh Beg (aged 51)