This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... more assiduously coveted by European nations in the early 16th century than the information recorded ...

These actions were crimes in Tudor times. The 16th century saw the start of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Protestant ideas began to spread to England and Wales in the 1520s, influencing ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) and the New World (North America and South America). Born in Genoa ...

A 16th-century secret passageway built for the ruling family of Florence, Italy, has opened to the public for the first time in history ... all the courts of modern Europe.” ...