c. 1450 AD
Fra Mauro world map synthesizes travelers’ knowledge
Oceans, navigation & cartography · Nautical cartography · Empire, trade & power
Fra Mauro’s monumental Venetian world map assembled thousands of inscriptions and knowledge from texts, merchants, and travelers around 1450. It marks a transition between medieval cosmography and new nautical information, yet represents the world known through its informant networks rather than a neutral, complete view of the planet.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2026-01-12
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2026-06-09
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
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