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October 22nd, 2006, 03:10 PM
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Years without Winter;;Draft One
This is a work in Progress, so all comments are eagerly invivited.
In 1450 a Comet exploded in LEO giving the Earth a temporay set of rings, In Europe this is Inperterted as Gods call to drive the musliman out of Europe, and various Allainaces proced with that. I Need Ideas on what it would mean elsewhere. I took a 3x4 map of the world and dropped ten pennies on it to get the locations of the impacts, so they are semi ramdom and I see no need to change them.
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An' Its Taamee this, and Taamee that, and Taamee goe Uwwae. But its Laung thhin Lien uv Hero's, Wen thu Band beegginz tue Plae. 
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October 22nd, 2006, 04:11 PM
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1449
* January 6 - Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor. He will be the last in a line of rulers that can be traced to the founding of Rome. * April 7 - The last Antipope, Felix V abdicates. * April 19 - Pope Nicholas V elected by the Council of Basel * April 25 - The Council of Basel dissolves itself. * August 13 - Brandenburg Margrave Albrecht Achilles takes the Lichtenau fortress from Nuremberg in the First Margrave War. * September 8 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Oirat Mongols defeat the Chinese Ming Dynasty army and capture Zhengtong Emperor of China * October 29 - French recapture Rouen from British 1450 * March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen. * April 15 - Battle of Formigny: French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough which was attempting to relieve Caen. * May 8 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI. * May 9 - 'Abd al-Latif Mirza (Timurid monarch) assassinated. * June 18 - Battle of Seven Oaks: Jack Cade's rebels are driven from London by loyal troops, bringing about the collapse of the rebellion. * July 6 - Surrender of Caen to the French. * August 12 - Surrender of Cherbourg, the last English territory in Normandy, to the French. * University of Barcelona founded. http://techfox.comicgenesis.com/images/tf20001121.gif 1451 * February 3 - * April 11 - Celje acquires market-town status and town rights by orders from the Celje count Frederic II. * June 30 - French troops under the Comte de Dunois invade Guyenne and capture Bordeaux * August 20 - The French capture Bayonne, the last English stronghold in Guyenne * Foundation of the University of Glasgow * Nicholas of Cusa invents concave lens spectacles to treat myopia * Roger van der Weyden paints his Last Judgment # Decembre 20th - It was odds that would make the hardest Gambler Tremble, and the coolest of Pool Sharks blanch. A few minutes one way and it would have passed the Moon by thousands of miles, a few Minutes the other way and it would have hit the Back side of the moon, not to be known for hundreds of years. But as the Gods of Chance willed, A Comet some 30 miles in Diameter, Tiny as these thing usually go, and only seen by the keenest of Astrologers, came past the Moon just inside the limit. As the Tidal forces pulled it into a quarter orbit of Luna, they also stretched it out into a long egg shape. But just before it shattered, it left the Roche Limit behind, and made a Run towards Earth. But due to the odd shape the Tidal forces had stretched it into, as it left the moons Gravitational field, It started slowing and tumbling. # As it entered Earths Field, it picked up speed both toward the Earth and in the Rate of Tumble. It entered Earths Roche limit somewhere over East Asia, the tidal forces working at the already stressed blocks of ice, held by the slightest of internal Gravity. Early in the Morning over the West Coast of America, Pieces started coming off, Lighter than the rest they raced ahead, entering the Atmosphere, and blazing across the Heavens. As it reached the Coast of Europe, The population just preparing for the night were treated to a Brilliant show, Thousand looked to the stars, just in time to see the Comet explode, some 500 miles up, somewhere over the Eastern end of the Mediterranean. Within Minutes Pieces began hitting the Earth, but only ten were large enough to do serious damage. # It took a Day for the Clouds too dissipates, But the next evening just after the sun set, Europe looked up at the Stars and saw a shining band of Light, stretching across the Heavens, leading off to the Southeast. 1452 # After close to Six Months of Speculation about the Christmas Sign, The Church Announces that the Halo of Light is a sign that Christians must Liberate Europe from the Menace of Islam. Fredrick Hapsburg III, Pledges 100.000 troops to the aid of King Ladislaus V of Hungary. * October - English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, land in Normandy, France, and retake most of the province without a fight. * Major eruption of the South Pacific volcano Kuwae in Vanuatu. The eruption released more sulphate than any other event in the past 700 years. # Novembre The HRE troops move south into the Ottoman Balkans headed to Liberate Belgrade. While the Hungarians are advancing towards Bucharest. 1453 # Zara Yaqob Emperor of Ethiopia, Surveying the Damage done to Mogadishu, By the Fragment of the Comet that hit in the Seychelles, Comes out of the Mountain Fortress and invades Somalia. For the First time in 700 years Ethiopia Controls the Coast. ? April 2 -OTL - Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul). ATL his troops are moving north to defend the Balkans ? May 29 - OTL - Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire). # Mehmed II Moves his troops north to defend Belgrade and Bucharest. * July 17 - Battle of Castillon. The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed. * October 19 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais, and Cherbourg, on French soil. Both the French and the English Kings stand together as they Announce that they will send troops to help with the Great Crusade. * Johann Gutenberg invents the movable type printing press. 1454 ? February 4 - In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederacy sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master. # ATL the war has ended with most of the Knights moving south to take part in the Great Crusade * March 6 - Casimir IV of Poland renounces allegiance to the Teutonic Knights * March 27 - Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York becomes Protector of England, as King Henry VI pledges to Liberate the Holy City of Jerusalem. * April 18 Treaty of Lodi: Francesco Sforza forms a triple alliance between the duchy of Milan, republic of Florence and kingdom of Naples ? September 18 - In the battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by a smaller but more professional Teutonic army during Thirteen Years' War. # ATL Poland retains control of Prussia * December - King Henry having returned to England, the Duke of York is dismissed as Protector * The press of Johannes Gutenberg (at Mainz on the Rhine) produces the first printed documents bearing a date 1455 * January 8 - Pope Nicholas V publishes Romanus Pontifex, an encyclical addressed to King Alfonso of Portugal, which sanctions the conquest of non-Christian lands, and the reduction of native non-Christian populations to 'perpetual slavery'. * February 23 - The Gutenberg Bible is first printed. * Wars of the Roses begins. * May 22 - First Battle of St Albans: Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England. # Austria moves south taking the remains of Venice, Venice destroyed after a Fragment hit the Adriatic Sea, Welcomes the Austrians who start helping rebuild. 1456 * July 7 - A retrial acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. * July 21 - July 22. Battle of Bucharest. The Hungarians under John Hunyadi rout the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II. The noon bell ordered by Pope Callixtus III commemorates the victory throughout the Christian world. (Hence the noon bell is still rung to this day.) * August 20 - Vladislav II, reigning Prince of Wallachia is killed in battle by Vlad III Dracula who succeeds him. * Lazar Brankovic becomes king of Serbia. * The university of Greifswald, later Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia) * Luigi de Cadamosto discovers the Cape Verde islands. * Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia founds the city of Debre Berhan * Muscovy and Novgorod Republic conclude the Treaty of Yazhelbitsy. 1457 * Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg founded. * Ştefan cel Mare secures the throne of Moldavia, which he retains for the next 47 years. * Edo Castle was built by Ata Dakan in what is now Tokyo. * Charles VIII of Sweden is declared deposed. Archbishop of Sweden Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and statesman Erik Axelsson Tott become Co-Regents of Sweden. The throne is then offered to Christian I of Denmark and Norway. 1458 * January 24 - Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary * Foundation of Magdalen College, University of Oxford * George of Podebrady becomes king of Bohemia * Pope Pius II becomes pope ? Turks issue a decree to protect the Acropolis after they conquer Athens. ATL they are busy in the Balkans. 1459 * September 23 - Battle of Blore Heath. Yorkists under the Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force. * October 12 - Due to the advance of a royal force on his fortress of Ludlow, The Duke of York flees to Ireland, while his ally Warwick goes to Calais. * City of Jodhpur, in western India, founded by Rao Jodha of Marwar. 1460 * The first Portuguese navigators reach the coast of modern Sierra Leone. * March 5 - King Christian I of Denmark declares the unity of the two provinces of Schleswig and Holstein, who have been treated as one ever since (albeit under different national affiliations). * March 6 - Treaty of Alcacovas - Portugal gives Castile the Canary Islands in exchange for claims in West Africa * June - The Earl of Warwick and Edward, Earl of March, eldest son of the Duke of York, land in England with an army and seize London. * July 18 - Battle of Northampton - Warwick and March defeat a Lancastrian army and seize King Henry. It is agreed that York will be Henry's heir, disinheriting the King's son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. * December 30 - Battle of Wakefield - A Lancastrian army under Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset and Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland defeats a Yorkist army under the Duke of York and his son, Edmund, Earl of Rutland. Both York and Rutland are killed, the latter murdered after the battle. York's son Edward becomes leader of the Yorkist faction. * 10 August, James III crowned at Kelso Abby Scotland. 1461 * February 2 - Battle of Mortimer's Cross - Yorkist troops led by Edward, Duke of York defeat Lancastrians under Owen Tudor and his son Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke in Wales. * February 17 - Second Battle of St Albans - The Earl of Warwick's army is defeated by a Lancastrian force under Queen Margaret, who recovers control of her husband. * March 4 - The Duke of York seizes London and proclaims himself King Edward IV of England * March 29 - Battle of Towton - Edward IV defeats Queen Margaret to make good his claim to the English throne. Thought to be the bloodiest battle ever fought in England. * Edward, Richard of York's son, crowned as Edward IV, King of England (reigns until 1483) * August 15 - The Empire of Trebizond, the last major Romano-Greek outpost Defeats the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II after a siege of 21 days. * Cirencester Grammar School founded in south-west England by the Bishop of Durham * Louis XI of France succeeds Charles VII of France as king (reigns until 1483) * Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli become students of Verrocchio * Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is founded by the Ottomans * François Villon: Le Grand Testament * Donatello: Judith and Holofernes 1462 * Settlers from Portugal begin to settle the Cape Verde islands. * March 28 - Death of Vasili II of Russia. Succeeded by his son Ivan III of Russia. * June 17 - Vlad III Dracula attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in the Night Attack, and the latter is forced to retreat from Wallachia. * September 17 - Battle of Dwiecino, called also Battle of Darnowiec, during Thirteen Years' War 1463 * January 5 - Poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris 1464 * February - Christian I of Denmark and Norway who was also serving as King of Sweden is declared deposed from the later throne. His deposed predecessor Charles VIII of Sweden is re-elected to the throne. # April 10 Battle of Brunkeberg, Christian I defeats Charles VIII, after the Peasants refuse to come to his Aid, the last ten years have been hard on the Peasants across Europe as Variable weather, plagues the Farmers. ? April 25 - Battle of Hedgeley Moore - Yorkist forces under Lord Montague defeat Lancastrians under Sir Ralph Percy, who is killed. * May 1 - Edward IV of England secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville. He keeps the marriage a secret for five months afterwards * May 15 - Battle of Hexham - Montague defeats another Lancastrian army, this one led by King Henry and Queen Margaret themselves. This marks the end of organized Lancastrian existence for several years. * End of the reign of Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan * Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado ascends to the throne of Japan 1465 * July 13 - Battle of Montlhéry Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of the great nobles organized as the League of the Public Weal. * Christian I of Denmark and Norway is Declared deposed. Clergyman Kettil Karlsson Vasa becomes Regent of Sweden. # August 11 - Regent Kettil Karlsson Vasa dies and is succeeded by Christian I of Denmark and Norway. * Amadeus IX of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy * Former King Henry VI of England is captured by Yorkist forces and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Queen consort Margaret of Anjou and the Prince of Wales Edward of Westminster had fled to France. 1466 * Chimú Empire conquered by troops of the Inca * Christian I of Denmark and Norway appoints Erik Axelsson Tott. Regent of Sweden * 19 October - The Thirteen Years' War ended with the Second Treaty of Toruk. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole was incorporated into Poland; # The Teutonic Knights were Banished to the Holy land. 1467 * October 29 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege * Beginning of the Sengoku Period in Japan. * Circa this year, polyalphabetic cipher invented by Leone Battista Alberti. * Regent of Sweden Erik Axelsson Tott supports the re-election of deposed Charles VIII of Sweden to the throne. # Christian I of Denmark and Norway, Removes Erik Axelsson Tott. Regent of Sweden. Sten Sture the Elder becomes Regent of Sweden. * Pope Paul II arrested and tortured some of the abbreviators, among them was Filip Callimachus. * King Matthias Corvinus founded the first university in Slovakia, the Universitas Istropolitana in Bratislava. 1468 * Baeda Maryam succeeds his father Zara Yaqob as Emperor of Ethiopia 1469 * July 26 - Battle of Edgecote Moor * October 17 - Prince Ferdinand of Aragon wed princess Isabella of Castile. This event would lead to a unified Spain in 1516. * Sigismund of Austria sells upper-Elsass (Alsace) to the Charles the Bold in exchange of aid in a war against the Swiss * Uzun Hassan wins in Persia and defeats Abu Said * Lorenzo de' Medici takes power in Florence * Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl. * James III of Scotland acquires Orkney and Shetland Islands from Denmark # Due to the large fragment of the Comet that fell in Mid atlantic off the Islands, the Tidal Wave has left the Islands bare except for few hills in the Centre. 1470 * May 15 - Charles VIII Former King of Sweden dies. * October - A rebellion orchestrated by King Edward's former ally, the Earl of Warwick, forces the King to flee England to seek support from his brother-in-law Charles the Bold of Burgundy. Warwick releases Henry VI from the Tower and restores him to the throne on October 30. * King Afonso V of Portugal conquers the city of Arzila in North Africa. * First contact between Europeans and the Fante nation of the Gold Coast when a party of Portuguese landed and met with the King of Elmina. (See also History of Ghana.) * Johann Heynlin introduces the printing press into France and prints his first book in the same year. # Ottomans send troops into Syria, to prevent it falling to the French and English Crusaders 1471 * February 20 - Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland, due to a defaulted dowry payment * March - The Yorkist King Edward IV returns to England to reclaim his throne. * April 14 - Battle of Barnet - Edward defeats the Lancastrian army under Warwick, who is killed. * May 4 - Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward defeats a Lancastrian army under Queen Margaret and her son, Edward of Westminster the Prince of Wales, who is killed. This practically destroys the Lancastrian cause. * May 20 - Henry VI of England is executed in the Tower of London and Edward IV becomes sole King of England. * October 10 - Second Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm. The forces of Regent of Sweden Sten Sture the Elder with help of farmers and miners repel an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark. * First Inca Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui of the Inca Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Tupac Inca Yupanqui. * Pedro Escobar and João Gomes first visit São Tomé and Principe. In 1471 Portuguese sailors reached Mina de Ouro on the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) and explored Cape St. Catherine, two degrees south of the equator. Mina de Ouro became the chief center for the gold trade and a major source of revenue for the crown. The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were also discovered in 1471. Thousands of Lancastrian Soldiers are sent to the Levant as part of the Great Crusade. 1472 # Battle of Goteburg, Christian I, King of Denmark, Defeats Sten Sture the Elder, Regent of Sweden. Declares End of Regency. * Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by João Vaz Corte-Real. * Beginning of extensive slave trade in modern Cameroon, as the Portuguese sail up the Wuori River. * Fernão do Po claims the central-African islands Bioko and Annobón for Portugal. * Banca Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena, the world's oldest bank, is founded. 1473 * Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens lead by Uzun Hasan at Otlukbeli * Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan invades the territory of neighboring Aztec city of Tlatelolco. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor. Tlatelolco loses its independence. * Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America) by Didrik Pining and João Vaz Corte-Real * Almanach Cracoviense ad annum 1474 is published # Aragon Invades Tunsia, as part of the Great Crusade 1474 * December 12 - Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile and her sister Juana who was supported by her husband, Alfonso V of Portugal. # Juana won the civil war after a lengthy struggle when Isabella's Father in Law the King of Aragon, refuses to come to her aid. [Busy in Tunsia and unable to spare the forces] # Aragon loses it bid to take Tunisia. 1475 * January 10 — Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui. * August 29—Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England. * Negotiated on August 29, 1475 between England and France. Louis XI paid Edward IV to stay in England and not pursue his claim to the French throne. Edward was provided with an immediate payment of 75,000 crowns and a yearly pension thereafter of 50,000 crowns.] * Landshuter hochzeit took place. [the wedding between Georg, the son of the Bavarian Duke, and Hedwig, daughter of the Polish King Casimir IV, in 1475] 1476 * March 2 - Battle of Grandson. A Swiss army defeats the Burgundians under Charles the Bold * June 2 - Battle of Morat. The Swiss again defeat Charles. * July 26 - Battle of Valea Alba. The Moldavians defeated by Ottoman army of Mehmed the Conqueror. * December - Vlad III Dracula manages to become reigning Prince of Wallachia for the third and last time before being killed by the Ottoman turks at the battle of [#] Contantina. His head is sent to his old enemy Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire. 1477 * January 5 - Battle of Nancy - Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated, and this time is killed. This marks the end of the Burgundian Wars. #January 29 - Mary of Burgandy captured and imprisioned in France ? February 10 - OTL - Mary of Burgundy, the daughter of Charles the Bold, is forced by her disgruntled subjects to sign the "Great Privilege," by which the Flemish cities recovered all the local and communal rights which had been abolished by the arbitrary decrees of the dukes of Burgundy in their efforts to create in the Low Countries a centralized state. # ATL, Mary is in France, so --No Great Privilege -- # August 18 - Mary of Burgundy marries Charles VIII, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into France. Charles is 07. Mary is 19. * Swedish University of Uppsala founded. * November 18 - William Caxton produces "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres", the first English book printed on a printing press. 1478 * January 14 - Novgorod surrenders to Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow. * February 18 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London. * April 26 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral. * December 28 - Battle of Giornico - Swiss troops defeat the Milanese. * Lorenzo de' Medici becomes sole ruler of Florence * Vladislav II of Bohemia makes peace with Hungary * Eskender succeeds his father Baeda Maryam as Emperor of Ethiopia at the age of six. 1479 ? January 20 - Ferdinand II ascends the throne of Aragon and rules together with his wife Isabella, queen of Castile over most of the Iberian peninsula. Together they conquer Granada in 1492 ending 800 years of Moorish rule. #ATL due to the misfortune in Tunisia, Isabella is no longer Queen of Castille ? August 7 - Battle of Guinegate - A French army sent to invade the Netherlands is defeated by Maximilian of Austria #ATL a Austrian army under Maximilian is prevented from invading the Netherlands. # October 13 - Battle of Sofia - The Hungarian army led by Pál Kinizsi and István Báthori defeats the Ottoman Turk army in Sofia, Bulguria * Christopher Columbus - experienced mariner and successful trader in the thriving Genoese "ex-pat" community in Portugal, marries Felipa Perestrelo Moniz (Italian on her father's side) and receives no ordinary dowry: Her late father's maps and papers charting the seas and winds around the Madeira Islands and other Portuguese possessions in the Ocean Sea * King John II of Aragon Dies seceded by his Son Ferdinand II 1480 # March 6 - Treaty of Toledo - Ferdinand and Isabella of Aragon recognize Juana of Castile and Afonso of Portugal and he cedes Tangeirs to Spain * Great standing on the Ugra river - Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde. * Ludovico Sforza becomes Regent of Milan (reigns until 1499) * Consorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile initiate the Aragon Inquisition (looking for heretics in converted Jews) * Leonardo da Vinci invents the parachute * Mohamed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes 1481 * May 3 - Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Beyazid II. * May 21 - Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway, and [#]Sweden, dies and is succeeded by his son John (1481-1513). * With the death of Duke Charles IV of Anjou, Anjou was reverted to the French crown under Louis XI of France. * Change of Patriarch Maximus III (1476-1481) to Symeon I (1466, 1471-1474, 1481-1486). * Fire destroyed the roof and the spires of the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Reims. * Tizoc, the Aztec ruler of the city of Tenochtitlán, rose to power. * Famous Aztec Calendar Stone or "Sun Stone" carved. * The Aragon Inquisition began (until 1820). * The papal Bull Aeterni regis had granted all land south of the Canaries to Portugal. * Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by his brother Tízoc. 1482 * Portuguese fortify Fort Elmina on the Gold Coast * Portuguese erect the Fort of Sao Jorge de Mina near the mouth of River Benya * Tizoc rules the Aztecs * July 6 Diogo Cão, a Portuguese navigator, becomes the first European to sail up the Congo. # Several miles up the river he notices a Large lake about 15 miles across, almost perfectly round except where the river has eroded the Banks. He doesn't know it but he is now inside the third Comet Crater. * Ivan III renounces the Mongol Khanate rule over Russia * Fictive date of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) ? March 27 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1457 died 1482.) 1483 * The São Tomé settlement is founded. * April 9 - Edward V becomes King of England. * April 30 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503. * April - Edward V Prince of Wales and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York reside in the Tower of London. ? Later this year rumors of their murders start circulating. By December the rumors have reached France. ? This is the beginning of the mystery concerning the fates of the two Princes in the Tower. * May 14 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable"). * June 13 - Execution of William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, the first recorded execution at the Tower of London. * June 25 - Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Uncle of the Young Prince Edward, Sets aside Edward's claim, Declares Himself King as Richard III of England. * July 6 - Richard III crowned king of England. # Witnessing the Event are the two young Princes. Richard III Declares Edward Plantagenet, Prince of Wales, as his Heir. # Supposedly this is done to prevent Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, from being able to Take the Throne. As the Earl of Richmond is in Exile in Jerusalem this is legalese * August 9 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel. * Louis XI of France died in August of 1483, Mary of Burgundy, becomes official Regent, thro in fact the Court is run by Louis' two Daughters. * October - A rebellion by the Duke of Buckingham is crushed by Richard III. * Isaac Abravanel flees Portugal after being implicated in a plot against the king. 1484 * July 22 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - * A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas captured. * September 15 - Peter Arbues, is assassinated while praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain and he died on September 17. * He had been appointed Inquisitor of Aragon by the Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in the campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism. * December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger * The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria * First cuirassier units (kyrissers) formed in Austria 1485 * June 1 - Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna in his conquest of Austria (from Frederick III) and makes the city his capital. * August 5-7 - First outbreak of sweating sickness in England begins. * August 22 - Battle of Bosworth Field is fought between the armies of King Richard III of England and rival claimant to the throne of England Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond. # Henry Tudor Is forced to Flee back to Jerusalem. * September 12 - Muscovite forces take hold of Tver. 1486 * Tízoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies. Some sources suggest that he was poisoned, others that he was the victim of sorcery or illness. He is succeeded by his brother Auitzotl. * Matthias Corvinus organizes first hussars * Sigismund, Archduke of Tyrol, issues Europe's first large silver coin, the guldengroschen. This coin later becomes the thaler. 1487 * Richard Fox becomes Bishop of Exeter. * May 24 - Lambert Simnel is crowned King "Edward VI of England" in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. # He claims to be Edward, Son of Edward of Winchester, the Lancasterian Prince of Wales. * June 16 - Battle of Stoke Field. The rebellion of Lambert Simnel, who pretended to be Duke Edward, son of the Duke of York, is crushed by troops loyal to Richard III * Publication of the witch-hunter manual Malleus Maleficarum. * Hongzhi becomes emperor of China (Ming dynasty). * Aztec emperor Auitzotl dedicates Great Temple Pyramid of Tenochtitlán with thousands of human sacrifices. * Diaz reaches the Cape of Good Hope. * Spanish take Málaga. * Italian architects begin to build the Kremlin in Moscow. 1488 * January 8 - The present Royal Netherlands Navy was formed By decree of Charles VIII. * February 3 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, at the tip of Africa becoming the first known European to travel this far south. * September 9 - Anne of Brittany becomes Duchess of Brittany at the age of 11 * James IV succeeds his father James III as King of Scotland. * Richard, Duke of York, Younger Brother of the Prince of Wales takes possession of Cardiff Castle. * Michelangelo Buonarroti becomes apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio. * City of Bikaner in western India founded by Rao Bika. # Charles VIII Becomes King of France. 1489 * March 14 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. * December 11 - Jeannetto de Tassis is appointed Chief Master of Postal Services in Innsbruck, his descendants the Turn und Taxis family later run much of the postal system of Europe. * Typhus sweeps through Spain, its first appearance in Europe. * Nicosia, Cyprus, becomes a possession of Venice. * King Richard III gives a city charter to Southwold. * Lucas Watzenrode becomes bishop of Warmia. # Louis XII born to Charles VIII and Mary of Burgandy. 1490 * Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published. * Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan. * Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent. * Aldus Manutius moves to Venice. * John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford. * Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun. * Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia. * Catholic missionaries arrive in the African kingdom of Kongo. * Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany. * Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action in small-bore tubes. * December 19 - Anne of Brittany married to Edward V by proxy 1491 # Charles VIII Invades Brittany, Anne is forced to Flee to England # English Troops land in the port of Cherbough, determined to regain, Brittany. * November 25 - The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins. * A major fire breaks out in Dresden. 1492 * January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege. * March 30 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree expelling all Jews from Aragon unless they convert to Roman Catholicism. * August 3 - Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas * August 3 - The Jews are expelled from Aragon. * Sultan Bayazid II of the Ottoman Empire, learning about the expulsion of Jews from Aragon, dispatched the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, # Mainly to the cities of Selanik (currently in Greece) and Izmir (currently in Turkey). Isaac Abravanel, is believed to have Financed the Expedition. * October 12 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. The Italian explorer believes he has reached East Asia. * October 21 - Christopher Columbus lands on San Salvador Island. * October 28 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba. * November 7 - The Ensisheim meteorite, a 127-kg meteorite, lands in a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace. * December 5 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first known European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola. * December 31 - About 100,000 Jews were expelled from Sicily. Most of them are evacuated to Ottoman Syria. * Casimir IV Jagiello of Jagiello Royal House ends reign. (1427-1492). * Year 7000 according to the Byzantine Date of Creation and an expected year of Apocalypse The first arboretum to be designed and planted was the Arboretum Trsteno, near Dubrovnik in Croatia 1493 * January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World. * March 15 - Christopher Columbus returns to France after his first trip to the Americas. * July 28 - Great fire in Moscow. * September 9 - Battle of Krbava field between defending Croatian nobles and invading Ottoman Turk forces. * November 19 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico). * December 23 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published. # Byzantine Troops attack the Ottomans In Thrace, with the Help of the Hungarians # Last Ottoman Troops leave Greece, The HRE enters Athens, Much of the Acropolis, is Damaged by Christian Soldiers, who see no need for Pagan Temples. # Constantinople protests the HRE occupation of Athens, as it wasn't part of the Ottoman Empire. 1494 * January 25 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. * May 3 - Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica. * May 31 - Natives of the island of Tenerife, known as Guanches, defeat invading Spanish forces at the First Battle of Acentejo. * October 22 - Ludovico Sforza becomes Duke of Milan. * Start of the Italian Wars. * The University of Aberdeen is founded by the bishop of Aberdeen. * Amda Seyon II succeeds his father Eskender as Emperor of Ethiopia. # Amda Seyon begins a Ship building program, by sending young men to work in the Indian and European Shipyards. * Oktoih, the first book produced in Serbian language in Cetinje. * Aztec forces conquer and sack Mitla. # The HRE troops leave Greece which is occupied by troops from Constantinople. 1495 * February 22 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as Viceroy. * May 26 - A Aragon army under Gonzalo de Córdoba lands in Calabria with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples. * June 1 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky. * June 28 - Battle of Seminara. Cordoba and Ferrante are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny. * July 6 - Battle of Fornovo - The French army under King Charles secures its retreat from Italy by defeating a combined Milanese-Venetian force under Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua. * December 25 - Second Battle of Acentejo - The Spanish crush native forces of the island of Tenerife, leading to the subjugation of this last bastion of resistance in the Canary Islands. * Russia invades Sweden through Karelia, but the Russian troops are beaten back at Vyborg. * Founding of the Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire. * Richard III of England commissions world's first dry dock at Portsmouth * University of Aberdeen founded by Bishop William Elphinstone. # English Withdraw from Brittany, Vowing to Continue the Fight. 1496 * January 3 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. * March 5 - English King Richard III issued letters patern to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover unknown lands. * March 10 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for France, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere. * July - Aragon forces under Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordoba capture Atella after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier. Ferrante II is restored to the throne of Naples. * Jesus College (University of Cambridge) founded. * Na'od succeeds his nephew Amda Seyon II as Emperor of Ethiopia. 1497 * 7 February - followers of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of "immoral" objects at the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence on Shrove Tuesday. * May 10 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. * May 13 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. * May 20 - John Cabot sets sail from Bristol on his ship the Mathew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). * June 17 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Richard III soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof. * June 24 - John Cabot lands in North America, either an island or the mainland. * July 8 - Vasco da Gama begins his expedition to India. * December 5 - King Manuel I of Portugal proclaims an edict in which he demands that Jews convert to Christianity or leave the country * Ivan the Great issues his law code, the Sudebnik # Again the Turks Send their Navy, with Merchantmen to evacuate the Jews. With the Restoration of the Byzantines into Thrace and Greece, most of these wind up in the new Ottoman areas of Syria. 1498 * Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Moçambique in southeastern Africa. * May 20 - Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut (now Kozhikode), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa. * May 23 - Girolamo Savonarola, ruler of Florence, is executed for criticizing the Pope. * July 31 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad. ? August 5 - Bartholomew Columbus, brother of Christopher Columbus, founds the city of Santo Domingo, now part of the Dominican Republic, making it the oldest European City and permanent settlement in the New World. # August- City of Nue Marsellies founded on the -Isle of St Joan- [OTL HIspanolia] * Christopher Columbus lands on the South American continent. * The Portuguese sail up to the coasts of modern Tanzania and Kenya. * John Cabot leaves port on an expedition, Trying to retrace the Vovage of João Vaz Corte-Real. And the discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland, North America. The Year Ends With one of the largest displays of shooting stars in the past fifty years. 1499 * July 22 - Battle of Dornach - The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian II. ? July 28 - First Battle of Lepanto - The Turkish navy wins a decisive victory over the Austrians. Sultan Bayazid II and the Ottomans capture Crypus. # Due to a Fragment that feel in the Adriatic Sea. the city of Venice was destroyed by a massive tidal wave back in 1451. Venice belong to the Austrians. * September 22 - Treaty of Basel. Maximilian is forced to grant the Swiss de facto independence. * November 23 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. * In 1497 he invaded England claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England. ? November 28 - Edward, Earl of Warwick is executed for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He was the last male member of the House of York. * The French under Louis XII seize Milan, driving out Duke Ludovico Sforza. * Lake Maracaibo is discovered. # John Cabot and his Five Ships, heading south along the Coast, meets a Couple of French Ships sailing North. ? OTL the Spainish Caplainied about Cabot claiming Land, that the Spainish had already explored. # The year is marked by nightly displays of Shooting Stars as the last of the Comets orbit decays and the remaining pieces fall to Earth. # First French Settlements in Louisiana [OTL Cuba]. ================================================== =============================== 1500 * Europe's population was ~60 million. (Spielvogel) # Thro there are no Measurements, Due to the large amount of CO2 from the Comet, The Earths CO2 has risen from 200 ppm in 1450, to 300 ppm in 1500. * January 5 - Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French. * January 26 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to discover Brazil. * February 17 - Battle of Hemmingstedt: The Danish army fails to conquer the peasants' republic of Dithmarschen. * April 22 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil and claims the land for Portugal. * November 11 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them. * Emperor Go-Kashiwabara ascends to the throne of Japan. * Second Battle of Lepanto - The Turkish fleet of Kemal Re'is defeats the Venetians. * The Luo, a Nilotic people from modern Sudan, settle the Cwezi states, establishing the state of Buganda. (approximate date) * Diogo Dias is the first European to see Madagascar. # French Soldiers attemping to take control of the Milinian Crimea travel up the Don, to a large oval lake some 12 ~ 20 miles across. # Both the Don and Volga flow into it from the north and out in the south, making a navigable passage between the Black and Caspian Seas. # Ethiopia Captures Dar es Salaam.
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# Zara Yaqob Emperor of Ethiopia, Surveying the Damage done to Mogadishu, By the Fragment of the Comet that hit in the Seychelles, Comes out of the Mountain Fortress and invades Somalia. For the First time in 700 years Ethiopia Controls the Coast." - Do you realize how much desert there is between the Ethiopian highlands and Mogadishu? He's very unlikely to pull off a stunt like this. And even more to hold on to the place. Ethiopia's trade with the outside world was conducted through Massawa. "1492 * January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege. * March 30 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree expelling all Jews from Aragon unless they convert to Roman Catholicism." I thought you had Juana and Alfonso as rulers of Castile? "* May 26 - A Aragon army under Gonzalo de Córdoba lands in Calabria with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples." - Wasn't Gonzalo a Castilian? IMO without the resources of Castile at his back Ferdinand will do rather worse in the Italian wars. If Venice was destroyed by tidal wave why is NE-Italy still called Venice and not frex Verona? I would have thought Milan a much better candidate for taking over the Venetian terra firma.
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