1501 - Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
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1501 - Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1500
Pedro Álvares Cabral from Portugal discovers Brazil and claims the land for his country.
1499 Perkin Warbeck executed
1498 - The toothbrush is invented (!)
1497 - Philipp Melanchthon born
1496:
Jan 3rd - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
1495 - The University of Aberdeen is founded.
1494 - Cristopher Columbus ''discovers'' Jamaica (though not reggae yet!)
1493 - Columbus "discovers" Puerto Rico
1492 - .......
1491 - King Henry VIII of England is born
1490 Aldus Manutius (founder of the Aldine press) moves to Venice
1489 - The Great British pound ( known as a sovereign) is first issued .
1488 - James IV of Scotland becomes king
1487 - The witch-hunter manual Malleus Maleficarum is published.
- Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China (Ming dynasty).
- Aztec emperor Auitzotl dedicates the Great Temple Pyramid of Tenochtitlán
with thousands of human sacrifices.
1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York
1485 - Leonardo da Vinci designed the ariel screw.
1484 - Bartolome de Las Casas is born
1483 - Giovanni Bellini is named official painter of the Republic of Venice.
1482 - Maria of Aragon is born
1481 - The famous Aztec Calendar Stone or "Sun Stone" is carved.
1480 - Margaret of Austria is born
1479 - The Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire sign a peace treaty, for which Venice will cede Argo, Negroponte, Lemnos and Scutari, and pay an annual tribute of 10,000 golden ducati.
1478 - Thomas More is born
1477 - Battle of Nancy (the end of the Burgundian Wars)
1476 - Vlad III :eek:Dracula :eek:becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time
1475
The oldest recorded chess game takes place: Francesco di Castellvi, a lord of several towns in the area of Jativa and Valencia, Spain and advisor in the Aragonese court of King Ferdinand plays Narciso Vinyoles. He was one of the co-authors of the 'scachs d'amor' (Chess of Love), a Catalan poem that describes the first modern game of chess.
1474 A civil war breaks out in the kingdom of Castile after Henry IV dies. Isabella, his daughter, becomes queen.
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus is born
1472
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena-The oldest surviving bank in the world is founded.
1471 - King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI
1470 The War of Roses continues: the battle of Lose-coat field is won by the house of York; the Earl of Warwick stages a rebellion, makes King Edward flee England, frees Henry VI from the tower of London and restores him to the throne
1469 - Niccolo Machiavelli is born
1468- Johannes Gutenberg dies.
1467 - Sigismund the Old born. Or, presumably, Sigismund the Not Very Old in 1467.
1466
The Chimú Empire is conquered by troops of the Inca.
Bernardo Accolti - poet & extemporist - born in Arezzo
1464 - Pope Paul II becomes the 211th pope
1463 - Birth of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Italian patron of the arts
1462 - Birth of Louis XII, the Just, King of France (1498-1515)