Project 500 Years

The biggest- or at least, the most interesting- thing that happened in world history in 1579 CE was the assassination by hands unknown of…

Here’s 1578 CE:

The major developments of world-historical importance in 1577 CE stemmed from the decisions England’s Queen Elizabeth I made to support…

Well, we’ve recently taken a bit of a peek at the state of two capable non-Christian Empires that were growing and doing significant…

I’ll start with a couple of short items about the state of the world in 1575 CE, then move to the main action, which concerned the…

All the usual things were happening in the world of 1574 CE: Mughal Emperor Akbar consolidating his growing territories; Protestants and…

Here they are:

Here were the main developments of world-historical impact that happened in 1572 CE:

So yesterday, I hit the 50-year mark! Hurrah! Time for another communique (which I suppose you could describe as a sort of meta-narrative…

In 1571 CE, by far the major development- from the perspective of “Western” Christian powers- was the Battle of Lepanto, in which an…

This is the 50th anniversary edition of the Project 500 Years daily bulletin. I have completed 10% of my self-assigned task! To mark the…

1568 was a pretty busy year. And I snuck a quick peek ahead at 1570, which is also action-packed. But 1569? Not so much. Setting aside the…

On a world-historical level, the major event of 1568 CE was something that happened in India. But other interesting things were happening…

Last year, 1566, one main big thing of world-historical importance happened. This year, 1567 CE, lots of things happened! I shall try to…

I’ll interrupt my normal procedure here of picking out a few bullet-points (or headlines) from the events of the year, to focus on a…