The Habsburgs: Secrets of a Dynasty (TRIH ep 445)
1519 · Resource
Charles V, The Holy Roman Emperor of the House of Habsburg, was at once King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Lord of the Netherlands and Duke of Burgundy. With a lineage supposedly stretching back to Noah’s Ark, and a name born in Ancient Rome, the Habsburgs are one of the most influential dynasties in all of European history, shaping and changing the course of nations and empires.
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Around 1519
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)