July-August 1494
July 1494: Following a tip that seems to point him to the Chinese mainland, Christopher Columbus sets sail northwest from his colony in Hispaniola. He does discover a new landmass, apparently comparable in size to Cuba, but the Tequesta people he encounters there are of no help in pointing him to the Great Khan. Moreover, a storm of inconceivable size and fury strikes his detachment, inflicting enough damage as to force him to rejoin the rest of his expedition before he can explore more of "Fernandia" than the sound he dubbed "Bahía San Buenaventura" [Biscayne Bay].
August 1494: Philip, Duke of Burgundy, undiplomatically accuses Henry VII of England of burning his own palace down as an excuse to make war on Scotland, bringing the already fraught relations between the courts almost to the point of no return.
Anna Radziwiłłówna, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania, announces a pregnancy of her own.
[Given the awkward shape of a Bohemia-Hungary-Lithuania union, I figure Alexander doesn't have that last bit ITTL. But if he doesn't rule the territory next to Russia, why does he have a Russian wife? Perhaps he's serving as a proxy for an already married brother, who's married a Lithuanian to help preserve the union that broke in 1492 IOTL.]
August 1494: Philip, Duke of Burgundy, undiplomatically accuses Henry VII of England of burning his own palace down as an excuse to make war on Scotland, bringing the already fraught relations between the courts almost to the point of no return.
Anna Radziwiłłówna, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania, announces a pregnancy of her own.
[Given the awkward shape of a Bohemia-Hungary-Lithuania union, I figure Alexander doesn't have that last bit ITTL. But if he doesn't rule the territory next to Russia, why does he have a Russian wife? Perhaps he's serving as a proxy for an already married brother, who's married a Lithuanian to help preserve the union that broke in 1492 IOTL.]
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