The First Italian War, or Charles VIII's Italian War, was the opening phase of the Italian Wars. The war pitted Charles VIII of France, who had initial...
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The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland...
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Siege of Fivizzano 8–9 November 1494: Florentine revolt against de' Medici Mid-November – 28 November 1494: French occupation of Florence ? 1495: French...
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Fornovo was the first major pitched battle of the Italian Wars. In the year 1495, Charles VIII was the youthful King of France, the most powerful state in medieval...
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Michael; Shaw, Christine (2012). The Italian Wars. Pearson Educational Limited. Nicolle, David (2004). Fornovo 1495: France's Bloody Fighting Retreat. Osprey...
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The siege of Novara took place in the summer and autumn of 1495 during the Italian War of 1494–1495. While king Charles VIII of France was retreating...
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Battle of Seminara, part of the First Italian War, was fought in Calabria on 28 June 1495 between a French garrison in recently conquered Southern Italy and...
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battle of Rapallo was a naval battle fought on 2 May 1495, during the First Italian War, between a fleet of the Republic of Genoa under the command of Francesco...
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Château d'Amboise (redirect from Château of Amboise)
of three French builders are preserved in the documents: Colin Biart, Guillaume Senault and Louis Armangeart. Following the Italian War of 1494–1495,...
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English-speaking university to teach medicine. February 22 – Italian War of 1494–98: King Charles VIII of France enters Naples, to claim the city's throne. A few...
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The Italian Wars of 1499–1504 are divided into two connected, but distinct phases: the Second Italian War (1499–1501), sometimes known as Louis XII's...
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Ottoman Empire. The Italian War of 1494–1495 began when Charles VIII of France invaded Italy to pursue the Angevin claim to the Kingdom of Naples. He was initially...
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signal of his willingness to reform. When Maximilian I announced on 24 November 1494 that the Diet of Worms would take place on 2 February 1495, his focus...
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conquered Naples with relative ease in the Italian War of 1494–1495, after his return to France, Ferdinand II of Naples quickly regained his kingdom. He...
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Abruzzo (redirect from Region of Abruzzo)
spread of brigandage, but coastal centers were favored by trade with the Republic of Venice's overseas territories. Shortly after the Italian War of 1494–1495...
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October 1494 and entered Pisa on 8 November 1494. The French army subdued Florence in passing on their way south. Reaching Naples on 22 February 1495, the...
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Mercurio Bua (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
in the important phases of the Italian Wars serving the Republic of Venice, the Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza, the Kingdom of France, the Holy Roman Emperor...
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(Italian Wars) Siege of Novara (1495) – 1495 – Italian War of 1494–1495 (Italian Wars) Battle of Seminara – 1495 – Italian War of 1494–1495 (Italian Wars)...
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beginning the Italian War of 1494–98. October 26 – Amda Seyon II is deposed and killed, and his uncle Na'od succeeds him as Emperor of Ethiopia. November...
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Succession (1490–1494), after the death of king Matthias Corvinus I of Hungary and Croatia[citation needed] Italian War of 1494–1495 or Italian War of Charles...
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Francesco II Sforza (redirect from Francis II, Duke of Milan)
Mallett and Christine Shaw, The Italian Wars:1494-1559, Pearson Education Limited, 2012. Charles Oman. A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century....
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1490s in England (redirect from 1495 in England)
Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland (died 1543) 1494 John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (died 1554) William Tyndale, religious reformer (died 1536) 1495 21 November –...
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Oltremarini (redirect from Overseas regiments of Venice)
Oltramarini or Schiavoni regiments (Italian: Reggimenti Oltramarini/Schiavoni) comprised the overseas infantry of the Republic of Venice. They were a Dalmatian...
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The first recorded outbreak of syphilis in Europe occurred in 1494/1495 in Naples, Italy, during a French invasion. Because it was spread geographically...
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from February 1508 to December 1516 as part of the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants of the war, who fought for its entire duration, were...
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18 December 1495) was Duke of Calabria and ruled as King of Naples from 25 January 1494 to 23 January 1495. He was a soldier and a patron of Renaissance...
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Dacre (2000). The Knights of the Crown. The Boydell Press. Mallett, Michael; Shaw, Christine (2012). The Italian Wars 1494-1559. Pearson Education Limited...
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Louis XII (redirect from Louis II, Duke of Orléans)
Duke of Milan. The invasion set off a series of wars that would last from 1494 until 1559 and would become known as the "Italian Wars". In 1495, Ludovico...
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Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (redirect from Consalvo of Cordova)
during the Italian Wars, holding command twice and earning the name "The Great Captain". The Italian Wars began in 1494 when Charles VIII of France marched...
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Metropolitan of Moscow Ambrosius (Hussite), priest, leader of Hussite peasants Ambrosius Beber (fl. 1610–1620), German composer Ambrosius Benson (c. 1495/1500...
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