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| 1409 |
| | | The Council at Pisa elects a new pope, Alexander V, without persuading the other two to resign - bringing the total to an unprecedented three | |
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| 1414 |
| | | A council is called at Constance, to consider the radical views of John Huss and to deal with the present excess of popes | |
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| 1417 |
| | | The Council of Constance, having done its best to dispose of the three existing popes, elects a new one - Martin V | |
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| c. 1422 |
| | | Jan Zizka wins a series of victories against papal armies, using the mobile barricade which becomes known as his 'war wagon fortress' | |
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| 1433 |
| | | The Compacts of Prague, agreed with the papacy in 1433, allow the Hussite laity to receive the sacrament in both kinds | |
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| 1438 |
| | | The French clergy pass a resolution at Bourges, limiting the power of the papacy within France, which is adopted by the king as a 'pragmatic sanction' | |
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| 1471 |
| | | The new pope, Sixtus IV, secures his name in history, establishing the Sistine chapel and the Sistine choir | |
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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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| 1491 |
| | | Savonarola, the new prior of San Marco, is a stern critic of both the pope in Rome and the Medici in Florence | |
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| 1492 |
| | | Rodrigo Borgia, elected pope as Alexander VI, already has four illegitimate children and possibly sires three more while pope | |
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