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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