Chisinau

City · 1436 CE · in Europe

Capital of Republic of Moldova (1992–today).

Related

• M'banza-Kongo (c. 1440 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Kongo (1440–1669).
• Nancy (c. 1431 CE): Capital of Duchy of Lorraine (1431–1766).
• Mrauk U (c. 1430 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Mrauk U (1430–1785).
• Shuri (c. 1429 CE): Capital of Ryukyu Kingdom (1429–1520).
• Launggyet (c. 1429 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Mrauk U (1429–1430).
• Bidar (c. 1425 CE): Capital of Bahmani Sultanate (1425–1491), Bidar Sultanate (1527–1618).
• Saray-Jük (c. 1450–1634 CE): Capital of Nogai Horde (1450–1563), Kazakh Khanate (1511–1521), Small Horde (1564–1634).
• Bucharest (1459 CE): 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).

Around the same time and place

• 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.
• Hanseatic trade route (1356–1669 CE): The Hanseatic League of north German merchant towns, led by Lübeck, dominated Baltic and North Sea trade from London and Bruges to Novgorod, exchanging furs, wax, grain, fish and timber for cloth and salt.
• Dome of Florence Cathedral (1436 CE): Brunelleschi's dome, completed in 1436, was the largest built since antiquity and a landmark of Renaissance architecture.
• Janissaries (c. 1363–1826 CE): Sultan Murad I created the Janissaries around 1363 as an elite Ottoman infantry corps, later filled through the devshirme levy of Christian boys. They grew into a powerful political force until Mahmud II abolished the corps in 1826.
• Jan Hus (c. 1370 CE – 1415 CE): Czech priest and reformer whose execution at Constance sparked the Hussite movement, a forerunner of the Protestant Reformation.

More on Wikipedia.