PEACH

History

1494

Population: 454 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Sebastian Brant Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools), John Lydgate The Fall of Princes, Walter Hulton Ladder of Perfection (posthumous - d. 1396)
Art includes Sandro Botticelli "Calumny", Da Vinci "Madonna of the Rocks", Bosch "Garden of Worldly Delights"
Music includes Jean Mauburnus publishes study of musical instruments
Mathematics: Luca di Pacioli publishes "Algebra"
Religion: Johan Reuchlin publishes study of cabalism
Deaths: Musician Johannes Okegham, Artist Hans Memling, Artist Domenico Ghirlandajo, Humanist Pico de Mirandola, Ferdinand I of Naples, Poet and humanist Matteo Maria Bogardo, Humanist Angelo Poliziano aka "Politician"

Treaty of Tordesillas where Spain and Portugal divide the New World between them - pope's line of demarcation moved further west
Brazil: Portugal claims all lands

General: Treaty of Tordesillas where Spain and Portugal divide the New World between them
Beginning of Italian Wars between France and Habsburgs of Spain
England: Henry VII of England sends Edward Poynings as deputy to Ireland to end support for Perkin Warbeck – Poynings’ Laws make Irish legislature dependent on England
King's College in Aberdeen founded
Statute of Drogheda (Poyning's Law) declares all English laws apply to Ireland
France: Aemilius Paulus of Cerona appointed historiographer royal to Charles VIII of France
German States: Goods Lottery (Pots of Luck) introduced in Germany as popular amusement
Ulm Minster finished
Holy Roman Empire: Maximilian I HRE recognizes Perkin Warbeck as king of England
Iceland: Plague outbreak
Ireland: Parliament of Drogheda marks subservience of Ireland to England
Italian States: Charles VIII of France begins invation of Italy – enters Florence - deposes Piero de’ Medici and enters Rome – Pope Alexander VI takes refuge in Castel Sant' Angelo
Death of Ferdinand I of Naples (Ferrante)
Theocracy of Girolamo Savonarola in Florence
People of Florence under Girolamo Savonarola depose Medici family
Russia: Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow closes Hanseatic trading office in Novgorod