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Events relating to europe
Henry VII, whose mother is Lancastrian, marries the Yorkist heiress Elizabeth and thus unites the roses - in the Tudor rose
Lambert Simnel, supposedly a nephew of Edward IV, is crowned in Dublin - but ends up working in the royal kitchens of Henry VII
Boiardo publishes a romantic epic, Orlando Innamorato, about Roland's love for a bewitching princess
Bartolomeu Dias, sailing for the king of Portugal, becomes the first European navigator to round the Cape of Good Hope
On the death of his father, James III, James IV becomes king of Scotland
Leonardo da Vinci begins an unprecedented series of detailed anatomical drawings, based on corpses dissected in Rome
Venice's annexation of Cyprus completes a useful chain of islands stretching to the eastern Mediterranean
On the death of Matthias Corvinus, in 1490, the Habsburgs recover Vienna from the Hungarians
Savonarola, the new prior of San Marco, is a stern critic of both the pope in Rome and the Medici in Florence
The army of Ferdinand and Isabella besieges and takes the city of Granada, completing the long reconquest of Spain from the Muslims
Torquemada persuades Ferdinand and Isabella to expel from Spain all Jews (about 160,000) who will not convert to Christianity
Bayazid II, the Turkish sultan, makes a special point of welcoming in Istanbul the Jews expelled from Spain
Rodrigo Borgia, elected pope as Alexander VI, already has four illegitimate children and possibly sires three more while pope
Christopher Columbus, together with the brothers Martin and Vicente Pinzón, sails west from Palos in Spain
After sailing for five weeks from the Canaries, Columbus and the Pinzón brothers step ashore in the Bahamas
Columbus and his fellow explorers make landfall on the largest of the Caribbean islands, Cuba
John I Albert summons the first recorded sejm, a parliament representing the whole of Poland
Columbus returns to Spain, landing at Palos with news of his great discoveries
Pope Alexander VI draws a line through the Atlantic, dividing new discoveries between Spain (west) and Portugal (east)
In negotiations about the New World at Tordesillas, the king of Portugal insists on a new demarcation line which later brings him Brazil
Charles VIII, king of France, marches through the Alps with an army of 30,000, to claim the throne of Naples
Piero de' Medici and his brothers flee from Florence, after a mob ransacks the Medici palace
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
The type faces known as roman and italic are created in Venice by the printers Nicolas Jenson and Aldus Manutius
Diego Columbus, brother of the explorer, establishes the first secure Spanish colony at Santo Domingo
