Faust (In Our Time)
1500 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the myth of Faustus." Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! "So spoke Dr Faustus with unnerving prescience shortly before being dragged off to hell in Christopher Marlowe's historical tragedy.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1500
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)