Quarterman Dates

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.com>]

   [1]Tomorrow:
   May 29

   1453:  Turks  take  Constantinople,  Constantinople  fell to the Turks
   After  a siege lasting weeks; the forces of Mehmed II at last breached
   the  walls that had stood impenetrable for more than a thousand years,
   and  the city fell. With the Fall of Constantinople, the Eastern Roman
   Empire  (Byzantium)  ended,  and  with it the last piece of Rome after
   2000  years. This caused a revival of Greek language and literature in
   the  west, due to refugees fleeing to [2]Venice and elsewhere. This in
   turn  led  to  a revival of biblical scholarship, which was one of the
   contributing factors to the [3]Reformation.

   1500: Dias d.,
   [4]Portuguese  explorer  Bartolomeu  Dias  (or  Diaz),  led  the first
   European  expedition to arrive to the Cape of Good Hope, drowned today
   as  a  storm  destroyed four of his ships. Dias had the East Indies as
   destination.  His  expedition  was nearing the Cape of Good Hope. Dias
   arrived  at  Mossel Bay, South Africa, in 1488, where today stands the
   Dias museum.

   1588:  Spanish Armada sails, The Invincible Armada, led by the Duke of
   Medina Sedonia, sails.

   1721: SC royal colony,
   [5]South  Carolina  was formally rechartered as a royal colony. At the
   time,  all  of  what  would  become  Georgia  was  included within the
   southern limits of South Carolina.

   1790: RI,

   1848: WS,

References

   1. http://www.quarterman.org/q/timeline.html
   2. http://www.boglewood.com/timeline/ottomans.html
   3. http://www.quarterman.org/www/www.quarterman.org/today/tomorrow.inc#Reformation
   4. http://www.gardenroute.net/mby/mbmuseums.htm
   5. http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-may/may29.htm
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