library in Germany
Founding
Founding of Municipal Scientific Library Mainz
library in Germany
- 1477
- Europe
Meanwhile, elsewhere
- 6 April 1453Fall of ConstantinopleMiddle East
- 1492European colonization of the Americas
- 12 October 1492first arrival of Christopher Columbus to AmericaMesoamerica and the Caribbean
- 1493 – 1898Spanish colonization of the Americas
- 1265 – 1479Byzantine–Ottoman warsMiddle East
- 1487 – 1583Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars
- 1492 – 1504voyages by Christopher ColumbusMesoamerica and the Caribbean
- 1467 – 1477Ōnin WarEast Asia