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| 1477 |
| | | Ptolemy's concept of the world, with the Atlantic stretching to China and India, is printed in Bologna – fifteen years before Columbus sails west | |
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| 1477 |
| | | Maximilian, heir to Austria, weds Mary, heiress to Burgundy, in the first of the great marriage alliances which form the Habsburg empire | |
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| 1478 |
| | | A plot by the Pazzi family, with papal connivance, results in the murder of Guiliano de' Medici during high mass in Florence's cathedral | |
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| 1478 |
| | | Ivan III subdues proudly independent Novgorod, removing the city's famous bell | |
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| c. 1480 |
| | | Leonardo da Vinci takes a professional interest in the new science of fortification | |
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| c. 1480 |
| | | The name of Constantinople changes to Istanbul, a word based on the everyday Greek name for the city | |
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| c. 1480 |
| | | The Maravi Confederacy is formed by Bantu tribes and soon wins control over a large region between Lake Nyasa and the Zambezi | |
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| c. 1480 |
| | | An increase in trade through the central Sahara benefits the Songhay, with their capital at Gao, at the expense of Mali | |
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| c. 1480 |
| | | Botticelli paints the Birth of Venus and Spring for the villa of a Medici cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent | |
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| 1480 |
| | | Ivan III, grand prince of Russia, becomes the first to deny the Mongols of the Golden Horde their annual tribute of tax | |
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