History
1495 
World
General
Population: 455 Million*- Entertainment: Writers include Jacopo Sannazzaro Arcadia, Dutch morality play introduces the everyman, Aldus Manutius (Greek classics),
Mattea Mario Boiardo (Italian romance)
Art includes Hieronymus Bosch "Garden of Worldly Delights", Da Vinci "The Last Supper", Dürer - opens studio at Nuremberg, Mantegna "The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and the Young St. John", Perugino "The Entombment"
Music includes Josquin des Pres appointed organist for Cambrai Cathedral - Religion: Imperial Diet of Worms – proclaims perpetual peace – sets up Imperial Chamber and Court of Appeal and imposes common penny as general tax
- Deaths: Sir William Stanley – executed, Artist Cosimo Tura
Americas
- Hispaniola: Christopher Columbus taxes natives of Hispaniola
Asia
- India: Dearth in Hindustan
Europe
- General: Pope Alexander VI forms Holy League which aims at expelling Charles VIII from Italy – forces defeated at Battle of Fornovo – Holy League ends and Charles VIII returns to France
Peace between France and the allies, with Lodovico Sforza as agent, foreshadows idea of balance of power in Europe
Charles VIII enters Naples – Holy League between Milan Venice Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI and Ferdinand V – forces him to withdraw - England: Poyning's Law – no Irish parliament without English consent
Perkin Warbeck fails to land at Kent and moves court of James IV of Scotland – received at Stirling
Sir William Stanley – Lord Chamberlain to Henry VII executed for complicity in Warbeck's conspiracy
English Parliament frames new statute of treasons and an act against vagabonds and beggars
Dry dock invented at English Portsmouth
Perkin Warbeck claims to be younger tower prince – captured - France: Charles VIII invades Italy
- Holy Roman Empire: Another Diet of Worms creates Imperial Chamber of the Holy Roman Empire - unity of German princes
- Ireland: Poyning's Law – no Irish parliament without English consent
- Italian States: Syphilis outbreak in Naples - linked to Columbus' men - spreads from Naples through Europe by French soldiers
Ferdinand II reconquers Naples and French fleet captured at Rapallo
Charles VIII enters Naples and is crowned King of Naples then retreats toward northern Italy - Portugal: Manuel the Fortunate succeeds John II as King of Portugal
Jews expelled from Portugal
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