PEACH

History

1501

Population: 461 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Conradus Celtis (allegorical play), Gawain Douglas (dream allegory), Erasmus, Giorgio Valla De expetendis fugiendis rebus
Art includes Michelangelo leaves Rome to return to Venice and creates "David" begun, Dürer "Life of the Virgin", Filippino Lippi "St. Catherine",
Book printing and typography develops quickly
Medicine: Worldwide outbreak of typhus until 1587
Religion: Papal bull promotes book burning for books that question authority of the church
Martin Luther (age 18) at Erfurt
Pope has supper with 50 prostitutes who danced naked, reports include orgies, satanism, murder, and cannibalism (likely false or exaggerated)
Deaths: Frederick III of Naples

General: Gaspar de Corte-Real attempts to bring first American Indians to Portugal as slaves
Brazil: Amerigo Vespucci explores coast of Brazil
Canada: First voyage of Anglo-Portuguese syndicate to North America
Hispaniola: Spanish settlers import first slacves to Hispaniola
Panama: Rodrigo de Bastides explores coast of Panama
West Indies: African slaves arrive

General: Peace of Trent between France and Emperor Maximilian I – French conquests in upper Italy recognized
Card games gain popularity all over Europe
Portugese ships carrying East Indies spices begin arriving at Antwerp
Russia and Poland at war – Russia gains Lithuania and border territories by 1503
England: Henry VII of England declines pope's request to lead crusade against Turks
Arthur – elder son of Henry VII marries Catherine of Aragon
France: French enter Rome – Pope declares Louis XII King of Naples
Italian States: Death of Frederick III of Naples
French enter Rome – Pope declares Louis XII King of Naples - conquer Naples, begins expansion in N Italy
Turks take Durazzo from Venice
Russia: Ivan III of Moscow invades Lithuania
Spain: Moors in Granada resist Spanish army – Ferdinand I declares Granada a Christian kingdom
Switzerland: Basel and Schaffhausen admitted as members of Swiss confederation