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Year 1494 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events. January–December. January 4 – The ...
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.
Italy in 1494 Piero took over as leader of Florence in 1492, upon Lorenzo's death. After a brief period of relative calm, the fragile peaceful equilibrium between the Italian states, laboriously constructed by Piero's father, collapsed in 1494 with the decision of King Charles VIII of France to cross the Alps with an army in order to assert ...
1494. January 11 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449) [61] January 20 – Seongjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (b. 1457) January 25 – King Ferdinand I ...
1494 John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (died 1554) William Tyndale, religious reformer (died 1536) 1495 21 November – John Bale, churchman (died 1563) Robert Barnes, reformer and martyr (died 1540) Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (died 1568) 1496 28 March – Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen of Louis XII of France (died 1533)
Pages in category "1494 in Europe" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1494 in Italy; B.
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 ...