| PH : | Treaty of Troyes; Henry V, recognised by Charles VI as heir apparent to the French throne, marries Catherine of France and enters Paris | VA : | Artist Piero della Francesca born |
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| PH : | Henry V of England dies; succeeded by nine-month-old Henry VI | PH : | Charles VI of France dies; succeeded by Charles VII |
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| PH : | James I of Scotland released by the English |
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| PH : | John VIII, Byzantine Emperor | PH : | Struggles in Bohemia between Ziska's followers, the Utraquists, and the radical Taborites |
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| M : | Holland becomes the centre of European music | ED : | Louvain University founded |
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| PH : | Itzcoatl, King of the Aztecs, in Mexico, enlarges his empire | ED : | Lincoln College, Oxford, founded | VA : | Tommaso Cassai (Masaccio) dies |
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| PH : | Treaty of Delft: peace between England and Flanders | PH : | Joan of Arc leads Fr. armies against England |
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| PH : | Joan of Arc raises siege of Orleans; Charles VII crowned in Rheims | PH : | Henry VI crowned at Westminster | PH : | Philip of Burgundy creates the Order of the Golden Fleece |
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| LT : | Modern English develops from Middle English | VA : | Beginning of first Dutch school | DL : | "Mad Marjorie", the great cast-iron gun, introduced |
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| PH : | Joan of Arc burned at the stake at Rouen | PH : | Henry VI of England crowned King of France in Paris | PH : | First Ger. peasant revolt at Worms | RP : | Pope Eugene IV | ED : | Universities of Caen and of Poitiers founded | VA : | Artist Andrea Mantegna born |
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| ST : | Port sailor Gonzalo Cabral discovers the Azores |
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| PH : | Sigismund crowned Holy Roman Emperor | DL : | The double-eagle becomes the emblem of the Holy Roman emperors |
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| PH : | Vladislav III, King of Poland | PH : | Cosimo de' Medici becomes ruler of Florence | RP : | Revolt in Rome; Pope Eugene IV flees to Florence |
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| PH : | Peace of Arras between Charles VII and Philip of Burgundy | PH : | Swed. Parliament (Riksdag) meets for the first time |
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| PH : | Compact of Iglau ends Hussite Wars, Emperor Sigismund acknowledged as King of Bohemia |
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| PH : | James I murdered at Perth; succeeded by James II | PH : | Emperor Sigismund dies; last of the House of Luxembourg; succeeded as king of Hungary, Bohemia, and Germany by his son-in-law, Albert V | M : | John Dunstable develops counterpoint in musical composition | ED : | All Soul's College, Oxford, founded |
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| PH : | Nine-years' truce between England and Scotland | PH : | Pachacutec founds Inca rule in Peru |
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| PH : | The heirs to the Fr. throne receive the title Conte du Dauphiné |
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| PH : | Frederick of Styria and Carinthia elected Ger. King | ED : | Platonic Academy, Florence, founded |
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| ED : | Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, founded | ST : | Port. navigators find the first Negroes near Cape Blanc, western Africa, and start slave trade again |
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| DL : | Eng. plague order on quarantine and cleansing |
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| PH : | Vladislav III of Poland and Hungary killed by the Turks at the Battle of Varna | ED : | Cosimo de' Medici founds the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence | VA : | Robert Campin dies |
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| ST : | Port. navigator Diniz Diaz discovers Cape Verde | PH : | Copenhagen becomes Dan. capital | VA : | Botticelli born, day unknown |
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| PH : | János Hunyady elected regent of Hungary | VA : | Artist Perugino born in Umbria |
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| PH : | Scanderbeg defeats Murad II, and gains independence for India, Persia, and Afghanistan | RP : | Pope Nicholas V | ED : | Founding of Palermo University |
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| PH : | Anglo-Scot. war renewed, Lancaster and York forming the two rival groups in England | PH : | Knutson Bonde elected King Charles VIII of Sweden | PH : | Constantine XI Palaeologus the last Byzantine Emperor |
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| PH : | English break truce with France, capture Fougères | VA : | Domenico di Tommaso Bigordi (Ghirlandaio) born |
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| PH : | Jack Cade's rebellion in England | LT : | Vatican Library founded | LT : | Gutenberg prints the Constance Mass Book | VA : | Florence under the Medici becomes centre of Renaissance and humanism | DL : | Mocha in south-western Arabia becomes main port for coffee export | VA : | Hieronymus Bosch born |
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| PH : | Mohammed I, Sultan of the Turks | ED : | Glasgow University founded |
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| PH : | Frederick III crowned emperor | PH : | George of Podebrad elected Regent of Bohemia | ST : | Metal plates are used for printing | VA : | Artist Leonardo da Vinci is born in Tuscany |
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| PH : | Turks capture Constantinople and kill Emperor Constantine XI, end of the Byzantine Empire | PH : | End of Hundred years' War between England and France | ST : | Gutenberg and his financier print the 42-line bible at Mainz |
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| PH : | Peace of Lodi between Venice and Milan | PH : | Richard, Duke of York, named "Protector of England" during insanity for Henry VI; Edward, son of Henry, named Prince of Wales | DL : | Gutenberg produces Indulgences, bearing printed data |
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| PH : | Duke of York, excluded from Council, defeats royal forces at St. Albans, May, and becomes again "Protector": Beginning of the Wars of the Roses | ST : | The Venetian navigator Cadamosto explores the Senegal River | VA : | Artist Fra Angelico dies |
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| PH : | The trial of Joan of Arc annulled | PH : | János Hunyadi dies |
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| PH : | Ladislas V Posthumus, King of Hungary and Bohemia, dies; Frederick III inherits Upper and Lower Austria |
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| PH : | The Hussite leader, George of Podebrad, becomes King of Bohemia | PH : | Matthias Corvinus, son of János Hunyady, becomes King of Hungary | RP : | Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini becomes Pope Pius II |
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| PH : | Renewal of civil war in England |
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| PH : | James II of Scotland dies; succeeded by James III | VA : | Hans Holbein the Elder born |
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| PH : | Edward, son of Richard of York, crowned Edward IV, King of England | PH : | Charles VII of France dies; succeeded by Louis XI | PH : | Scanderbeg becomes Prince of Albania |
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| PH : | Emperor Frederick III recognises Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, who recognises Hapsburg claims to succession | LT : | François Villon, saved from gallows, disappears | DL : | Monte di Pietà at Orvieto: money loaned at low interest to poor people |
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| PH : | Peace between England and Scotland | PH : | Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence, dies | RP : | Pope Paul II | DL : | Louis XI establishes Fr. royal mail service | DL : | Scot. Parliament decrees that "fute-ball and golfe not to be used" | VA : | Rogier van der Weyden dies |
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| M : | First printed music | DL : | Edward IV passes edict forbidding "hustling of stones" and other bowling-like sports |
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| LT : | Johann Mental prints first Ger. Bible (Strasbourg) |
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| PH : | Philip II of Burgundy dies; succeeded by Charles the Bold |
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| RP : | Bishopric of Vienna established |
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| PH : | Lorenzo de' Medici, "the Magnificent", ruler of Florence | VA : | Artist Fra Filippo Lippi dies |
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| ST : | Port. navigators discover Gold Coast, West Africa | ST : | First Fr. printing press set up at the Sorbonne, Paris |
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| PH : | Edward IV, King of England, defeats and kills Richard, Earl of Warwick at Barnet, defeats Queen Margaret and kills Prince Edward at Tewkesbury, and enters London; Henry VI murdered in the Tower | PH : | King George of Bohemia dies; succeeded by Vladislav II | RP : | Pope Sixtus IV | VA : | Albrecht Dürer is born |
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| PH : | Dan. navigator Deitrich Pining claims to have discovered Newfoundland | VA : | Bartolommeo di Pagola del Fartorino (Fra) born | VA : | Lucas Cranach the Elder born |
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| PH : | Duke Albrecht Achilles declares indivisibility of electorates of Brandeburg |
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| PH : | Isabella I, Queen of Aragon | LT : | William Caxton prints the first book in English |
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| M : | John Taverner born | VA : | Matthias Grünewald is born | VA : | Artist Michelangelo de Buonarotti
born in Florence | VA : | Paolo di Dono (Uccello) dies in Florence |
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| LT : | Caxton prints Chaucer's Canterbury Tales |
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| PH : | Union of Aragon and Castile under Ferdinand the Catholic and Isabella; beginning of Span. state | ED : | Copenhagen University founded | DL : | After the destruction of Arras, Brussels becomes the centre of European tapestry industry |
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| PH : | Ivan III styles himself Czar of the Russians | PH : | Ludovico Sforza, Regent of Milan | RP : | Ferdinand and Isabella appoint inquisitors against heresy among converted Jews | ST : | Leonardo da Vinci invents parachute | VA : | Albrecht Altdorfer born (year approximate) |
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| PH : | Bajazet II, Sultan of the Turks | RP : | Beginning of the Spanish Inquisition under the joint direction of state and church |
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| PH : | Peace of Arras between Louis XI and Hapsburgs |
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| PH : | Edward IV of England dies; succeeded by his son young Edward V | PH : | Edward V and his brother disappear, probably murdered by their uncle, Richard of Gloucester, who claims the throne as Richard III | PH : | Louis XI of France dies; succeeded by Charles VIII | VA : | Artist Raphael is born in Urbino |
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| RP : | Pope Innocent VIII | RP : | Papal bull "Sumis desiderantes" against witchcraft and sorcery | M : | Joannes de Tinctoris: De inventione et usu musicae | DL : | Richard III reforms law, trade, and tax collection |
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| PH : | Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond defeats and kills Richard III; succeeds as Henry VII; starts Tudor dynasty | DL : | Establishment of Yeomen of the Guard in England |
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| PH : | Maximilian I elected Ger. King | ST : | The Portuguese discover Angola |
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| VA : | Titian is born (year approximate) |
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| PH : | James III of Scotland murdered; succeeded by James IV | PH : | Revolt of Fl. towns against Maximilian | DL : | The first dispensary (Apotheke) in Berlin |
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| PH : | Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, forced to cede her kingdom to Venice | PH : | Yasuf Adil Shah, a former slave, becomes ruler of Bijapur, India | ST : | The symbols + (plus) and - (minus) come into use | VA : | Correggio is born (year approximate) |
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| PH : | Matthias Corvinus of Hungary dies; Vladislav II of Bohemia elected to succeed him | LT : | Beginning of development of Span. drama | M : | First beginnings of ballet at Ital. courts | ST : | Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action of liquids in small-bore tubes | DL : | The first orphanages in Italy and Holland |
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| PH : | Five-year truce of Colstream between England and Scotland | PH : | Treaty of Pressburg: Vladislav II of Hungary and Bohemia acknowledges the Hapsburg right of Succession |
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| PH : | The Spanish conquer Granada and extinguish Moorish kingdom | PH : | Charles VIII takes control of affairs in France | PH : | Lorenzo de' Medici, "The Magnificent", dies; his son Piero becomes ruler in Florence | PH : | Casimir IV, King of Poland, dies; succeeded in Poland by John Albert, in Lithuania by Alexander | PH : | Peace of Etaples: France expels Warbeck and pays England an indemnity of £159,000 | RP : | Pope Innocent VIII dies; Roderigo Borgia becomes Pope Alexander VI | ED : | Elio Antonio Nebrija: Latin-Spanish dictionary | RP : | By order of the inquisitor-general, Torquemada, Span. Jews are given three months to accept Christianity or leave the country | ST : | Leonardo da Vinci draws a flying machine | M : | Opera, treatise on theory of music by Roman philosopher Boëthius, published in Venice | ST : | The first terrestrial globe constructed by Nuremberg geographer Martin Behaim | PH : | Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain finance the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World    GO ! | DL : | The profession of book publisher emerges, consisting of the three pursuits of type - founder, printer and bookseller | VA : | Artist Piero della Francesca dies 12 October |
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