Bucharest

City · 1459 CE · in Europe

Capital of United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (1859–1881), Kingdom of Romania (1919–1947), Socialist Republic of Romania (1965–1989).

Maimbung (c. 1459 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Sulu (1459–1879).
Jajce (c. 1460 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Bosnia (1460–1463).
Vonitsa (c. 1460 CE): Capital of Despotate of Epirus (1460–1479).
Sarajevo (1462 CE): Capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–today).
Turpan (c. 1463 CE): Capital of Moghulistan (1463–1518), Eastern Chagatai Khanate (1492–1511), Eastern Moghulistan (1519–1570), and 1 more.
Aksu (c. 1463 CE): Capital of Moghulistan (1463–1518), Eastern Chagatai Khanate (1492–1511), Eastern Moghulistan (1519–1570), and 1 more.
Gao (c. 1464 CE): Capital of Songhai Empire (1464–1591).
Saray-Jük (c. 1450–1634 CE): Capital of Nogai Horde (1450–1563), Kazakh Khanate (1511–1521), Small Horde (1564–1634).
Zugdidi (c. 1468 CE): Capital of Principality of Mingrelia (1468–1803).
Sokhumi (c. 1468 CE): Capital of Principality of Abkhazia (1468–1810).

Around the same time and place

Printing press (c. 1440 CE): Gutenberg's press with movable metal type made mass production of books possible, transforming the spread of knowledge in Europe.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 CE – 1519 CE): Italian Renaissance polymath born in Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, whose notebooks record studies in anatomy, engineering and flight.
Fall of Constantinople (1453 CE): Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire; the city became the Ottoman capital.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 CE – 1543 CE): Polish astronomer and canon of Frombork in Royal Prussia who proposed a Sun-centred model of the universe in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, published in 1543, the year of his death.
Michelangelo (1475 CE – 1564 CE): Florentine sculptor, painter and architect of the High Renaissance. He carved the Pietà and David, painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the Last Judgement, and designed the dome of St Peter's.
Mona Lisa (c. 1503 CE): Leonardo da Vinci began this portrait of Lisa Gherardini in Florence around 1503 and kept working on it for years. It hangs in the Louvre and is among the most famous paintings in the world.
Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400 CE – 1468 CE): German goldsmith from Mainz who introduced printing with movable metal type to Europe.
Dome of Florence Cathedral (1436 CE): Brunelleschi's dome, completed in 1436, was the largest built since antiquity and a landmark of Renaissance architecture.