Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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1462 Castilians capture
Gibraltar from Arabs

1463 Turks overrun
Bosnia

1466 Peace of Torun

1471 Portuguese capture
Tangier

1472 Portuguese reach
Fernando Po

1476 Swiss defeat
Burgundians at Morat

1478 Pazzi conspiracy
against the Medici
1479 Union of Aragon
and Castile

1485 Matthias Corvinus
takes Vienna from
Frederick III
1487 Diaz rounds Cape
of Good Hope

1489 Cyprus ceded to
Venice

1491 Treaty of Pressburg
recognizes Hapsburg
rights to Bohemia and
Hungary
1492 Conquest of
Granada completes
Reconquista; Jews
expelled from Spain;

1464 Paul II pope

1471 Sixtus IV pope;

death of Thomas à

Kempis

1478 Start of Spanish

Inquisition

1484 Innocent VIII pope

1492 Alexander VI pope

IV king of England

(→1483)

1467 Charles the Bold

duke of Burgundy

(→1477)

1469 Marriage of Isabella

of Castile and Ferdinand

II of Aragon; Lorenzo the

Magnificent head of the

Florentine republic

(→1492)

1471 Ercole I d’Este

created first duke of

Ferrara

1474 Isabella queen of

Castile (→1504);

Federico Il da

Montefeltro created first

duke of Urbino

1477 Maximilian, heir to

Emperor Frederick III,

marries Mary of

Burgundy

1479 Ferdinand II king of

Aragon (→1516)

1483 Richard III king of

England (→1485);

Charles VIII king of

France (→1498)

1485 Henry VII, first

tudor king of England

(→1509)

1488 James IV king of

Scotland (→1513)

1462 Death of Henry the

Navigator

1464 Regiomontanus’s

De triangulis, first

modern book on

trigonometry, published

1476 Caxton printing at

Westminster

1491 Froben printing at

Basle

c. 1475 Van der Goes’s

Portinari altarpiece

1478 Pulci’s II Morgante

1479 Verrocchio at work

on Colleoni statue

c. 1480 Botticelli’s

Primavera painted

1483 First two books of

Boiardo’s Orlando

innamorato published

1485 Alberti’s De re

aedificatoria published

1470

1480

1490