Poland: Copernicus, the Dragon and the Salt Mine (TRIH ep 270)
1543 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook present a travel-style cultural and historical tour of Poland framed as its “seven wonders,” drawn from a 2007 Reszpospolita public poll. The pair open with Kraków — its founding legend (Krakus and the dragon Smok Wawelski), the vast medieval Rynek Główny (main square), the Cloth Hall and Wawel Hill with its cathedral and castle — stressing Kraków’s Renaissance and Hanseatic ties and its partial survival through WWII. They discuss Zamoszcz (a planned Renaissa...
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Around 1543
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)