The Sack of Rome 1527 (In Our Time)
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous assault of an army of the Holy Roman Emperor on the city of Rome in 1527. The troops soon broke through the walls of this holy city and, with their leader shot dead early on, they brought death and destruction to the city on an epic scale. Later writers compared it to the fall of Carthage or Jerusalem and soon the
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Around 1527
- The Reformation (1517)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- 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)