Building the brick walls of the Moscow Kremlin
Italian masters build the fortress that still stands today
In 1485–1495, under Ivan III, Italian masters including Pietro Antonio Solari built the new brick walls and towers of the Moscow Kremlin. The fortress survives to this day.
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The Kremlin's present walls were built by Italian masters (1485–1495). Thirteen years after they were finished, Michelangelo began the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1492 Fall of Granada — 7 years later
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — 9 years later
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — 16 years later
Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 3 years later
Asia
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — 13 years later
Americas
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 7 years later
Alive at the time
- Christopher Columbus (aged 34)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 33)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 12)
- Michelangelo (aged 10)
- Martin Luther (aged 2)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 49)
- Ivan III (aged 45)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 34)
- Richard III (aged 33)
- Henry VII (aged 28)