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| 1480 |
| | | Tomas de Torquemada, from a family of converted Jews, is appointed Spain's first Grand Inquisitor | |
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| 1481 |
| | | Civil war between squabbling Swiss cantons is averted by the diplomcy of a hermit, Brother Klaus, at the Convention of Stans | |
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| 1483 |
| | | The English king Edward IV dies and his succeeded by his 12-year-old son as Edward V | |
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| 1483 |
| | | The two royal princes, Edward V and his younger brother, are confined in the Tower of London by their uncle - soon to be Richard III | |
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| 1483 |
| | | Richard III has himself proclaimed king by a parliament held at Westminster, and begins a short reign of only two years | |
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| 1483 |
| | | The Portuguese establish a further presence on the west coast of Africa, at the mouth of the Congo river | |
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| 1485 |
| | | Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, captures Vienna and makes the city his capital | |
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| c. 1485 |
| | | A tower is added to St Mary's in Barnes | |
|  | St Mary's Church, in Barnes
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| 1485 |
| | | Henry Tudor kills Richard III at Bosworth Field and takes the crown as Henry VII | |
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| 1486 |
| | | Henry VII, whose mother is Lancastrian, marries the Yorkist heiress Elizabeth and thus unites the roses - in the Tudor rose | |
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