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  • Cesena, Italy
    1502
    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia

    Cesena, Italy
    1502

    In Cesena in 1502, Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI, acting as a military architect and engineer and travelling throughout Italy with his patron.




  • Spain
    Friday Aug 15, 1502
    Chocolate

    Christopher Columbus with the Cacao

    Spain
    Friday Aug 15, 1502

    Christopher Columbus encountered the cacao bean on his fourth mission to the Americas on August 15, 1502, when he and his crew seized a large native canoe that proved to contain among other goods for trade, cacao beans. His son Ferdinand commented that the natives greatly valued the beans, which he termed almonds, "for when they were brought on board ship together with their goods, I observed that when any of these almonds fell, they all stooped to pick it up, as if an eye had fallen."




  • Granada
    Wednesday Feb 12, 1502

    Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain

    Granada
    Wednesday Feb 12, 1502

    Muslims in Granada were forced to convert to Catholicism.




  • Lisbon
    Wednesday Feb 12, 1502

    Vasco da Gama second voyage

    Lisbon
    Wednesday Feb 12, 1502

    On his second voyage to India, Vasco da Gama left Lisbon, Portugal.




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