While Columbus was sailing to America, Italian masters were building the Moscow Kremlin.
Its brick walls went up in 1485–1495, so those famous battlements are the same age as the discovery of the New World.
The events
- Building the brick walls of the Moscow Kremlin1485–1495 · Moscow Kremlin. 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.
- Columbus reaches the Americas1492 · Guanahani. Christopher Columbus, sailing for Spain in search of a western route to Asia, landed on the Bahamian island of Guanahani on 12 October 1492. It began lasting contact between the Old and New Worlds, transforming both hemispheres.
More amazing facts
- 1480 · 1492 The Horde's rule over Rus' ended with the Great Stand on the Ugra in 1480 — only 12 years before Columbus reached the Americas.
- 1482 In his letter to the Duke of Milan, Leonardo da Vinci mentioned painting only at the very end. Around 1482 he offered Ludovico Sforza bridges, cannons and siege engines, and art "in time of peace".
- 1485 · 1508 The Kremlin's present walls were built by Italian masters (1485–1495).
- 1485 · 2012 The last English king to die in battle was found under a car park.
- 1485 · 1812 The Moscow Kremlin was white for a long time.
- 1486 · 1560 · 1630 Witch hunting was early modern, not medieval.