 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1494 |
| | | Charles VIII, king of France, marches through the Alps with an army of 30,000, to claim the throne of Naples | |
| |
|
| 1494 |
| | | Piero de' Medici and his brothers flee from Florence, after a mob ransacks the Medici palace | |
| |
|
| 1495 |
| | | Charles VIII captures Naples in February and is crowned there in May, but is forced back across the Alps before the end of the year | |
| |
|
| c. 1495 |
| | | Dürer, the first great artist to tackle the complexities of printing, becomes a master of woodcut and engraving | |
| |
|
| c. 1495 |
| | | The type faces known as roman and italic are created in Venice by the printers Nicolas Jenson and Aldus Manutius | |
| |
|
| 1496 |
| | | Diego Columbus, brother of the explorer, establishes the first secure Spanish colony at Santo Domingo | |
| |
|
| 1496 |
| | | Philip, heir to Austria, marries Joanna, a daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, in the second of the great Habsburg marital alliances | |
| |
|
| 1497 |
| | | Savonarola, in the carnival before Lent, urges the people of Florence to throw playing cards and lewd images on a great bonfire of vanities | |
| |
|
| 1497 |
| | | Henry VII commissions the Italian navigator John Cabot to cross the Atlantic in search of new territories for England | |
| |
|
| 1497 |
| | | John Cabot, searching for a trade route to China, probably reaches Newfoundland | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |