-
Jan 1, 1310
Dante publishes the Divine Comedy
-
Period: Jan 1, 1337 to Jan 1, 1453
Hundred Years' War
-
Jan 1, 1344
Edward III repudiates his debts to Florentine bankers
-
Jan 1, 1353
Boccaccio publishes Decameron
-
Jan 1, 1378
The ciompi revolt in Florence
-
Jan 1, 1390
Chaucer publishes Canterbury Tales
-
Period: Jan 1, 1414 to Jan 1, 1418
Council of Constance
-
Jan 1, 1415
Henry the Navigator established his school of navigation
-
Period: Jan 1, 1420 to Jan 1, 1485
Flow of slaves to different places
Flow of Balkan slaves to the eastern Mediterranean: flow of African slaves to the western Mediterranean. -
Jan 1, 1422
Oligarchies rule Venice and Florence
-
Period: Jan 1, 1422 to Jan 1, 1461
Charles VII revives France and the monarchy.
-
Period: Jan 1, 1429 to Jan 1, 1431
Joan of Arc rallies French monarchy
-
Apr 17, 1432
The Florentine gov. sets up The Office of the Night
-
Period: Jan 1, 1434 to Jan 1, 1494
Medici family rules Florence
-
Jan 1, 1435
Naples is passed to Argon
-
Jan 1, 1438
Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
-
Jan 1, 1444
Lorenzo Valla publishes On the False Donation of Constantine
-
Jan 1, 1445
Portuguese conquer Cape Verdi, Africa
-
Jan 1, 1450
Venician war with Milan
-
Period: Jan 1, 1450 to Jan 1, 1500
Princes in Germany consolidate power
-
Jan 1, 1453
Engliah expelled from French soil
-
Period: Jan 1, 1453 to Jan 1, 1471
War of Roses
-
May 1, 1453
Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople
-
Jan 1, 1454
Peace Treaty of Lodi
-
Jan 1, 1454
Invention of movable type
-
Jan 1, 1456
Gutenberg Bible is published
-
Jan 1, 1467
Religious orders hold 1/3 of the city's taxable property
-
Jan 1, 1469
Marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon
-
Jan 1, 1470
Medici family spends 663,755 gold florins on art
-
Jan 1, 1471
Edward IV began establishing domestic tranquility
-
Jan 1, 1476
Bartolomeo is denounced for having sexual relations with a boy
-
Jan 1, 1477
Union of Burgundy and Habsburg dynasties is sealed
-
Nov 1, 1478
The Spanish Inquisition
-
Period: Jan 1, 1480 to Jan 1, 1490
30,000 pounds was bequeathed to religious foundations
-
Sep 28, 1480
Ferdinand and Isabella order the establishment of tribunals
-
Jan 1, 1482
The Treaty of Arras
-
Period: Jan 1, 1483 to Jan 1, 1511
New Papal chancellery built
-
Jan 1, 1485
The Tudor dynasty is established in England
-
Jan 1, 1488
Bartholomew Diaz reached the Cape of Good Hope
-
Jan 1, 1491
Isabella of Este requests a black girl for entertainment
-
Period: Jan 1, 1491 to Jan 1, 1494
Savonarola gives sermons about the moral vice & paganism of Florence
-
Jan 1, 1492
King of the Congo began trading slaves for weapons & goods
-
Jan 1, 1492
All practicing Jews issued from Spain
-
Jan 6, 1492
Conclusion of the Reconquista
-
Oct 1, 1492
Columbus sails for India, but reaches the Americas
-
Jan 1, 1493
Line of Demarcation
-
Jan 1, 1494
Invasion of Italy
-
Jan 1, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
-
Jan 1, 1496
Ferdinand & Isabella marry their daughter to archduke Philip
-
Jan 1, 1497
Giovanni Cabazo explores New England, Newfoundland, & Nova Scotia.
-
Period: Jan 1, 1498 to Jan 1, 1511
Portuguese gain control of East Indian spice trade
-
Jan 1, 1499
Erasmus meets the scholar John Colet