Picture of the day: THE APPARITION OF THE VIRGIN TO POPE CALIXTUS III BY SANO DI, ALSO ANSANO DI PIETRO DI MENCIO PIETRO  

4 May 1493-Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. Pope Alexander VI published a bull, 'Inter caetera', which granted to Spain (the Crowns of Castile and Aragon) all lands to the "west and south" of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and...