Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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Columbus lands in New
World

1494 Charles VIII of
France invades Italy;
Medici expelled from
Florence; Treaty of
Tordesillas
1495 Holy League
against the French

1497 Cabots reach Nova
Scotia; Jews expelled
from Portugal
1498 Vasco da Gama
reaches India

1499 Peace of Basle
effectively ensures Swiss
independence; Louis XII
occupies Milan; Morisco
revolt in Andalusia

1500 Treaty of Granada
agrees French/Spanish
partition of Italy; Cabral
discovers Brazil

1501 Basle joins Swiss
League

1504 France cedes
Naples to Spain under
treaty of Lyons
1505 Portuguese reach
Sri Lanka

1508 League of Cambrai
against Venice

1509 Venice defeated at
Agnadello; Spaniards
conquer Oran

1510 Portuguese capture
Goa

Secular Events Religion Rulers Sciences Arts and Literature

1498 Savonarola burned

1503 Pius III pope; Julius

II pope

1507 Indulgence for

building of St. Peter’s

1493 Maximilian I

becomes emperor

(→1519)

1495 Charles VIII of

France crowned king of

Naples; Manuel I king of

Portugal (→1521)

1496 Philip the

Handsome, heir to

Emperor Maximilian I,

marries Joanna, heiress of

Spain

1498 Louis XII king of

France (→1515)

1501 Cesare Borgia

created duke of Romagna

1503 Alfonso d’Este duke

of Ferrara (→1534)

1507 Margaret of Austria

regent of Netherlands

(→1530)

1508 Francesco Maria I

first della Rovere duke of

Urbino

1509 Henry VIII king of

England (→1547); Philip

II the Magnanimous land-

grave of Hesse (→1567)

1493 Nuremberg

Chronicle published

1495 Leonardo at work

on his Last Supper

(Milan)

1498 Dürer’s Apocalypse

woodcuts

1499 Hypnerotomachia

Polifili and Rojas’ La

Celestina published;

Michelangelo’s first Pietá

(St. Peter’s, Rome)

1500 Erasmus’s Adagia

published

1502 Bramante’s

Tempietto at San Pietro in

Montorio, Rome;

Pinturicchio at work on

fresco cycle in the

Piccolomini library, Siena

1504 Michelangelo’s

David

1506 Bramante

commissioned to build

new St. Peter’s, Rome;

Leonardo’s Mona Lisa

1508 Michelangelo

begins work on Sistine

Chapel ceiling

1509 Raphael begins

work on the Stanze della

Segnatura frescoes

(Rome)

1511 Erasmus’s Encom-

ium Moriae published

1500

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