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Maximilian, heir to Austria, weds Mary, heiress to Burgundy, in the first of the great marriage alliances which form the Habsburg empire
The name of Constantinople changes to Istanbul, a word based on the everyday Greek name for the city
Boiardo publishes a romantic epic, Orlando Innamorato, about Roland's love for a bewitching princess
Bayazid II, the Turkish sultan, makes a special point of welcoming in Istanbul the Jews expelled from Spain
The type faces known as roman and italic are created in Venice by the printers Nicolas Jenson and Aldus Manutius
Philip, heir to Austria, marries Joanna, a daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, in the second of the great Habsburg marital alliances
The Salic law, preventing inheritance of the throne by or through a woman, is by now accepted as a fundamental law of France
The Portuguese capture Hormuz and establish a garrison to control the Gulf of Oman
The death of Ferdinand II results in Spain becoming part of the Habsburg empire, under the rule of Charles V (as Charles I of Spain)
The Ottoman sultan, Selim I, captures Cairo and ends Mameluke rule in the middle east
The last Abbasid caliph, captured by the Ottoman Turks, is taken as a prisoner to Istanbul - ending the authentic line of 'successors' to Muhammad
From Bosnia to Egypt and Arabia, the Ottoman Turks now rule the largest Muslim empire since the early caliphate - and will frequently use the title of caliph to assert their authority within Sunni Islam
The Turkish sultan, Suleiman I, marches into the kingdom of Hungary and captures Belgrade
The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, makes Titian his court painter (an arrangement continued by Philip II)
Suleiman I takes Buda (now Budapest), and by 1547 the Turks occupy almost the whole of Hungary
Pope Paul III establishes the Roman Inquisition, with the specific task of fighting against the Protestant heresy
A council of the Roman Catholic church is convened in Trent, to establish the tenets of the Counter-Reformation
Hungary is divided, by agreement between the Turkish sultan Suleiman I and the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I
Charles V abdicates, handing the Netherlands and Spain to his son Philip and the title of Holy Roman emperor to his brother Ferdinand
The division by Charles V of his territories means that there are now two Habsburg empires, Austrian and Spanish
Sinan completes his masterpiece, the mosque of Suleiman I in Istanbul
Spanish and Venetian galleys defeat the Turks in the battle of Lepanto
The Ottoman empire finally asserts control over the north African coast, in the footsteps of Muslim pirates
Tasso, in Gerusalemme Liberata ('Jerusalem Liberated'), turns the first crusade into a romantic epic
Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes publishes the first part of his satirically romantic novel Don Quixote
