First transatlantic slave voyage
1526 · Event
Portuguese ships carry the first enslaved Africans directly across the Atlantic to the Americas.
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Around 1526
- The Reformation (1517)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)