| Greifswald | ... and the rest of the world | ||
| 1453 | Turks capture Constantinople: end of the Byzantine Empire | ||
| 1456 | Pope Calixtus III founds the university of Greifswald at the instigation of Greifswald´s mayor Heinrich Rubenow |
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| 1462 | murder of the mayor and first rector of the university Heinrich Rubenow | ||
 Heinrich Rubenow |
1473 | birth of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus | |
| 1479 | union of the kingdoms of Aragón and Castile: the beginning of the modern Spanish state | ||
| 1492 | Columbus discovers America; capture of Granada ends Muslim rule in Spain | ||
| 1515 | the octagonal gothic pointed spire of St. Nicholas´ falls down during a storm |
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| 1517 | beginning of the Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther publishes 95 theses | ||
| 1531-34 | establishment of the Protestant Reformation in Greifswald | 1534 | Ignatius Loyola founds the Jesuit Order |
 St. Mary´s |
1547 | Michelangelo is appointed architect to St. Peter's in Rome | |
| 1588 | destruction of the Spanish Armada: beginning of the British naval supremacy | ||
| 1618 | beginning of the Thirty Years´ War | ||
| 1627-31 | Catholic League troops under the command of Wallenstein occupy Greifswald | 1630 | Swedish troops come to assistance of the Prostestant League |
| 1631 | Swedish troops headed by their king Gustav II. Adolf set Greifswald free from Wallenstein´s troops | ||
| 1648 | end of the Thirty Years´ War: Greifswald and the western part of Pomerania become part of the Swedish empire. | ||
| 1649 | England becomes a republic headed by Oliver Cromwell who assumes the title Lord Protector | ||
| 1652-53 | completion of today´s baroque spire of St. Nicholas´ after the gothic spire had fallen down once again | ||
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| 1655-60 | First Northern War | ||
| 1656 | Diego Velázquez "Las Meninas" | ||
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| 1678 | capture of Greifswald by Brandenburg troops: cannonballs of the bombardment are still embedded in the walls of St. Mary´s. | ||
| 1683 | siege of Vienna by the Turks | ||
| 1689 | "Declaration of Rights": England becomes a constitutional monarchy | ||
| 1700-21 | Great Northern War | ||
Copernicus
Martin Luther
Diego Velázquez