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The First Italian War, or Charles VIII's Italian War, [2] was the opening phase of the Italian Wars. The war pitted Charles VIII of France , who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire , Spain and an alliance of Italian powers led by Pope Alexander VI , known as the League of Venice.
The Italian Wars [b] were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and Mediterranean Sea. The primary belligerents were the Valois kings of France , on one side, and their opponents in the Holy Roman Empire and Spain on the other.
The Italian War of 1494–1498 began when Ludovico Sforza, then Regent of Milan, invited Charles VIII of France to invade Italy, using the Angevin claim to the Kingdom of Naples as a pretext. This in turn was driven by the intense rivalry between Ludovico's wife, Beatrice d'Este , and that of his nephew Gian Galeazzo Sforza , son of Isabella of ...
1 Italian War of 1494–98. 2 Italian Wars of 1499–1504. 3 War of the League of Cambrai. 4 War of Urbino. ... Second Italian War (1499–1501) September 1499: ...
The Risorgimento movement emerged to unite Italy in the 19th century. Piedmont-Sardinia took the lead in a series of wars to liberate Italy from foreign control. Following three Wars of Italian Independence against the Habsburg Austrians in the north, the Expedition of the Thousand against the Spanish Bourbons in the south, and the Capture of Rome, the unification of the country was completed ...
This is a timeline of Italian history, ... The Italian War of 1494–1498, or First Italian War, begins, marking the first major battle in the Italian Wars.
Articles relating to the Italian War of 1494–1495 (1494-1495), the opening phase of the Italian Wars.The war pitted Charles VIII of France, who had initial Milanese aid, against the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and an alliance of Italian powers led by Pope Alexander VI, known as the League of Venice.
The War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the War of the Holy League and several other names, [1] was fought 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 France, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice; they were joined ...