Invention of eyeglasses
c. 1286 · Event
Spectacles appear in northern Italy, extending the working lives of scholars and craftsmen across Europe.
On these timelines: Italy (post-476 CE), Master, Arts and Thoughts
More from Italy (post-476 CE)
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons (1725)
- Raphael's School of Athens (1511)
- Botticelli's Primavera (1482)
- Verdi's La Traviata premieres (1853)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538)
- Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew (1600)
Around 1286
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Alhambra built in Granada (1238)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Rumi's Masnavi (1258)
- Marco Polo travels to China (1271)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Edward III of England (1312)
- Reign of Edward I (1272)