Valois Burgundy; marriage of Charles's daughter Mary to Maximilian of Austria | |
1478 | The Pazzi conspiracy: papal attack on the Medici in Florence |
1479 | Union of the crowns of Aragon and Castile |
1480 | Turks capture Otranto, on Italian mainland, and hold it for a year |
1481 | Beginning of Spanish war against Granada |
1482 | Death of Mary of Burgundy: treaty of Arras divides the Burgundian lands between France and the empire |
1483 | Death of Louis XI of France; Charles VIII succeeds him; the Spanish Inquisition formally established by a union of the Inquisitions of Aragon and Castile |
1484 | Peace of Bagnolo ends conflict in Italy |
1487 | Bartholomew Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope |
1490 | Death of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary; accession of Ladislas II, king of Bohemia, to the Hungarian throne |
1492 | Fall of Granada to Christians; expulsion of the Jews from Spanish kingdoms; voyage of Christopher Columbus results in discovery of the New World; death of Lorenzo de' Medici of Florence |
1494 | French invasion of Italy under Charles VIII: beginning of the Italian Wars |
1495 | Reichstag of Worms attempts imperial reforms at the instigation of Maximilian I |
1497 | Vasco da Gama reaches India having rounded Africa |
1498 | Burning of Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican who had gained a powerful hold over Florence since the fall of the Medici in 1494 |
1499 | Granadan Muslims given choice of conversion or expulsion |
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