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Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, captures Vienna and makes the city his capital
A tower is added to St Mary's in Barnes
Henry Tudor kills Richard III at Bosworth Field and takes the crown as Henry VII
Henry VII, whose mother is Lancastrian, marries the Yorkist heiress Elizabeth and thus unites the roses - in the Tudor rose
When the enlarged pyramid at Tenochtitlan is dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec sacrifice of human victims lasts for four days
Lambert Simnel, supposedly a nephew of Edward IV, is crowned in Dublin - but ends up working in the royal kitchens of Henry VII
The Fuggers make their first loan to a Habsburg archduke, beginning a profitable link with the dynasty
The Inca empire is extended to the north and a second capital is established at Quito
Boiardo publishes a romantic epic, Orlando Innamorato, about Roland's love for a bewitching princess
When Henry VII is in Richmond for Christmas, fire breaks out in his lodging and destroys much of the palace
Bartolomeu Dias, sailing for the king of Portugal, becomes the first European navigator to round the Cape of Good Hope
On the death of his father, James III, James IV becomes king of Scotland
Leonardo da Vinci begins an unprecedented series of detailed anatomical drawings, based on corpses dissected in Rome
Venice's annexation of Cyprus completes a useful chain of islands stretching to the eastern Mediterranean
On the death of Matthias Corvinus, in 1490, the Habsburgs recover Vienna from the Hungarians
Savonarola, the new prior of San Marco, is a stern critic of both the pope in Rome and the Medici in Florence
The king of France is among those supporting Perkin Warbeck, supposedly a prince from the Tower, in his attempt on the English throne
A French privateer off the west coast of Ghana is the first to plunder a Portuguese vessel carrying home African gold
The army of Ferdinand and Isabella besieges and takes the city of Granada, completing the long reconquest of Spain from the Muslims
Torquemada persuades Ferdinand and Isabella to expel from Spain all Jews (about 160,000) who will not convert to Christianity
Bayazid II, the Turkish sultan, makes a special point of welcoming in Istanbul the Jews expelled from Spain
Rodrigo Borgia, elected pope as Alexander VI, already has four illegitimate children and possibly sires three more while pope
The world's first globe is published by Martin Behaim without showing America, in the very year of Columbus' voyage
Christopher Columbus, together with the brothers Martin and Vicente Pinzón, sails west from Palos in Spain
After sailing for five weeks from the Canaries, Columbus and the Pinzón brothers step ashore in the Bahamas
