Benin plaque: the oba with Europeans
16th century · Resource
A cast-brass relief plaque from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin showing the oba with Portuguese figures, documenting early West African contact with Europe. One of the Benin Bronzes looted in 1897.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1550
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)