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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
1431-1449 Council of Basel
1435 Death of Duke of Bedford
Duke of Burgundy abandons the English alliance
Cosimo de' Medici comes into power in Florence
1435-1442 Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily wins the Kingdom of Naples in a struggle with René of Anjou
1437 House of Hapsburg becomes practically hereditary in the Holy Roman Empire
1438 Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
1438-1439 Council of Ferrara-Florence
1444 Battle of Varna
c 1450 Invention of printing
1451 Francesco Sforza becomes despot of Milan
1452 Last coronation of a Holy Roman Emperor at Rome
1453 Fall of Constantinople
Close of the Hundred Years War
1455 Wars of the Roses begin
1460 Death of Prince Henry the Navigator
1465 League of the Public Welfare against Louis XI
1469 Marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile
1477 Death of Charles the Bold; marriage of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian
1478 Novgorod captured by Ivan III of Russia
About the same time Russia is freed from the Golden Horde
1485 Battle of Bosworth Field; Henry VII founds the Tudor dynasty
i486 Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope
1492 Discovery of America
Conquest of Granada
Death of Lorenzo de' Medici
1494 Charles VIII invades Italy
1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India
Execution of Savonarola
1505 Michelangelo called to Rome
1508 League of Cambray against Venice
Raphael comes to Rome
1513 The Prince of Machiavelli
1515 Battle of Marignano
1517 Luther posts his Ninety Five Theses
1519 Charles V elected Holy Roman Emperor
Death of Leonardo da Vinci