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March 19 – The Senate of the Republic of Venice enacts the Venetian Patent Statute, one of the earliest patent systems in the world. [1] New and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them. This is considered the first modern patent system. [2]
The Treaty of London (French: Traités de Londres) was an agreement between Charles the Bold of Burgundy and Edward IV of England signed on 25 July 1474. In the treaty, Charles agreed to support England militarily during an invasion of France, and to recognise Edward as the King of France. [1]
1474. Eric II, Duke of Pomerania died 5 July Ali Qushji died 16 December. January 3 – Pietro Riario, Catholic cardinal (b. 1447) March 22 – Iacopo III Appiani, Prince of Piombino (b. 1422) April 14 – Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, daughter of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (b. 1414) April 30 – Queen Gonghye, Korean royal consort ...
It will be the world's largest by the early 19th century and brew until the 1970s. [89] The engraved Visscher panorama of London is published. 1616–35 – The Queen's House is built in Greenwich to a design by Inigo Jones. 1617 23 August: The first one-way streets are created in alleys near the Thames. [50] [90]
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
1470. 12 March – Wars of the Roses: House of York defeats rebel forces allied with Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Losecoat Field. [2]20 March – the Battle of Nibley Green (in Gloucestershire) is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates in England.
The Fra Mauro Map of the world. The map depicts Asia, Africa and Europe, with South at the top.. The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian cartographer Fra Mauro, which is “considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography."
The Genoese map is a 1457 world map. The map relied extensively on the account of the traveler to Asia Niccolo da Conti , rather than the usual source of Marco Polo . [ 1 ] The author is not known, but is a more modern development than the Fra Mauro world map , with fairly good proportions given to each continents.