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Chronological Table.
| 1489 | Diet of Frankfort. Free imperial towns secure right of appearing at Diets. |
| 1490 | Death of Matthias Corvinus and expulsion of Hungarians from Vienna. |
| Wladislav of Bohemia succeeds to Hungary. | |
| Savonarola returns to Florence. | |
| 1491 | Savonarola Prior of San Marco. |
| Imperial reform efforts at Diet of Nürnberg. | |
| Marriage of Charles VIII of France and Anne of Britanny. | |
| 1492 | Spanish expedition under Cristoforo Colombo discovers America. |
| Fall of Granada and extinction of Moorish Kingdom. | |
| Death of Lorenzo de' Medici. Election of Pope Alexander VI. | |
| Siege of Boulogne. Treaty of Étaples. | |
| Reuchlin takes up the study of Hebrew. | |
| 1493 | Papal bull divides field of oceanic enterprise between Spain and Portugal. |
| Death of Emperor Frederick III and accession of Maximilian. | |
| Treaty of Senlis. Artois and Franche Comté restored by Charles VIII. | |
| Treaty of Barcelona. Charles VIII restores Roussillon and Cerdagne. | |
| Marriage of Maximilian and Bianca Maria Sforza. | |
| Aldo Manuzzio begins series of Greek editions at Venice. | |
| 1494 | Death of Ferdinand (Ferrante) of Naples. |
| Charles VIII enters Italy. | |
| Expulsion of the Medici from Florence. | |
| Charles reaches Florence, and marches on Rome. | |
| Reform of Florentine Constitution under influence of Savonarola. | |
| Sir Edward Poynings opens Parliament of Drogheda. | |
| Death of Politian. | |
| Sebastian Brant's Narrenschift printed at Basel. | |
| 1495 | Charles enters Naples as conqueror. |
| League against France between the Pope, Maximilian, Ferdinand, Milan, and Venice. | |
| Charles leaves Naples. Battle of Fornovo. | |
| Diet of Worms. The reforming Edict of Worms. | |
| 1496 | French dispossessed in Naples. |
| Failure of Maximilian's Italian campaign. | |
| Diet of Lindau. | |
| Disfranchisement of Polish peasants. | |
| Magnus Intercursus between England and the Netherlands. | |
| The Infante Juana marries Archduke Philip. | |
| Henry VIII's charter to John Cabot and his sons. | |
| 1496-7 | Voyage of John Cabot of Labrador and Newfoundland. |
| 1497 | Vasco da Gama doubles the Cape of Good Hope and reaches Calicut. |
| Establishment of permanent Reichskammergericht. | |
| Infante Juan marries Margaret, Maximilian's daughter. | |
| Collapse of the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy. | |
| 1497-8 | Synods of Alcalá and Talavera. |
| 1498 | Accession of Louis XII of France. Duchy of Orleans and County of Blois united to Crown. |
| Execution of Savonarola. | |
| Death of Torquemada. | |
| Erasmus at Oxford. Colet returns from Italy. | |
| 1499 | Peace of Basel recognises Swiss independence of imperial jurisdiction. |
| Pinzon and Amengo Vespucci re-discover America. | |
| Revolt in Granada. | |
| Alcalá University founded. | |
| First conquest of Milan by Louis XII. |
