Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The shrine that became a symbol of Mexico
According to tradition, in December 1531 the Virgin Mary, dark-skinned, appeared to the baptised Indigenous man Juan Diego on Tepeyac hill, and her image was miraculously imprinted on his cloak, or tilma. Her cult fused Catholicism with local tradition. The 1810 independence revolt marched under her banner, and her basilica in Mexico City is one of the most visited shrines in the world.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — 23 years earlier
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — 14 years earlier
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — 3 years later
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — 12 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — 5 years earlier
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — 16 years later
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — 24 years later
Middle East
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — 11 years earlier
Africa
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — 2 years earlier
Asia
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — 20 years earlier
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — 5 years earlier
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 25 years later
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 58)
- Michelangelo (aged 56)
- Martin Luther (aged 48)
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 1)
- Guru Nanak (aged 62)
- Vasily III (aged 52)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 47)
- Hernán Cortés (aged 46)
- Henry VIII (aged 40)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (aged 37)