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July 4 – Defeat of John Corvinus in the battle of Bonefield. July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje (modern-day southwestern Slovenia). July 22 – Ashikaga Yoshitane becomes 10th Muromachi shōgun of Japan. November 20 – The first edition of the chivalric romance Tirant lo Blanch, by ...
Events. 1490. Construction begins on the tower of Magdalen College, Oxford. [2] John Colet receives his M.A. from the college. Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Richard IV of England at the court of Burgundy. 1491. November – Perkin Warbeck begins a campaign to take the English throne with a landing in Ireland. [2]
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1. January 4 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who ally themselves with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of Lèse-majesté. 2. March 13 – Charles II becomes Duke of Savoyat age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent. 3. March or April – 1490 Qingyang event, a presumed meteor shower or air burst over Qingyang in Ming dynastyChina, said to have caused casualties. 4. July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastov...
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1. Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Henry VII of England, at the court of Burgundy. 2. Traditional date of the Battle of Glendale (Skye) between the Scottish clans MacDonald and MacLeod. 3. Catholic missionaries arrive in the African Kingdom of Kongo. 4. Pêro da Covilhã arrives in Ethiopia. 5. Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany. 6. Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action, in small-bore tubes. 7. Leonardo da Vi...
February 14 – Valentin Friedland, German scholar and educator of the Reformation (d. 1556)February 17 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, French military leader (d. 1527)March 6 – Fridolin Sicher, Swiss composer (d. 1546)March 22 – Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian noble (d. 1538)January 27 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1435)March 6 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)April 6 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)May 12 – Joanna, Portuguese Roman Catholic blessed and regent (b. 1452)Nov 4, 2011 · 1493 by Charles C Mann – review. A lively account of how Columbus's voyage changed history. Robin Blackburn. Fri 4 Nov 2011 18.55 EDT. T he first attempts at world history too often had a bland...
MS 34294), is a richly illuminated book of hours initiated by Bona Sforza, widow of Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan, around 1490, who commissioned the illuminator Giovanni Pietro Birago . The book remained in an unfinished state for 30 years until Margaret of Austria , Regent of the Netherlands, commissioned its completion in 1517–20 from the ...
The Reformation: A History is a 2003 history book by the English historian Diarmaid MacCulloch. It is a survey of the European Reformation between 1490 and 1700. It won the 2003 Wolfson History Prize (UK) and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award (US). Editions. English-language editions: Reformation: Europe's House Divided (Paperback ...
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