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| 1472 |
| | | Leonardo da Vinci joins the painters' guild in Florence, probably after training with Verrocchio | |
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| c. 1475 |
| | | Tommaso Portinari, the Medici agent in Bruges, commissions an altarpiece from Hugo van der Goes for his family church in Florence | |
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| c. 1475 |
| | | With Constantinople in Turkish hands, Moscow begins to see itself as the centre of Orthodox Christianity - or the third Rome | |
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| 1475 |
| | | Edward IV, landing at Calais with a large army, is bought off at Picquigny with a bribe - ending his attempt to revive the Hundred Years' War | |
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| c. 1475 |
| | | Giovanni Bellini becomes the key figure in the development of the Renaissance style in Venice | |
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| 1476 |
| | | The Swiss win a decisive victory at Morat over the army of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy | |
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| c. 1476 |
| | | Caxton establishes the first English printing press in London, after working in the new trade in Bruges | |
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| 1477 |
| | | Ptolemy's concept of the world, with the Atlantic stretching to China and India, is printed in Bologna – fifteen years before Columbus sails west | |
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| 1477 |
| | | Maximilian, heir to Austria, weds Mary, heiress to Burgundy, in the first of the great marriage alliances which form the Habsburg empire | |
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| 1478 |
| | | A plot by the Pazzi family, with papal connivance, results in the murder of Guiliano de' Medici during high mass in Florence's cathedral | |
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