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Beginning of the Wars of Italy
Apogee of the Great discoveries
January 2nd: End of the Spanish Reconquista by the catch of Grenade.
Development of the humanism in Poland between 1492 and 1586. It arrives initially by the Hungary of Mathias Corvin and is relayed at the Polish court by the queen Bona Sforza.

Towards the end of the 15th century, the family Tutsi of Banyiginya, which was established in the Eastern Ruanda, becomes the core of the dynasty ruandaise.
the kingdoms Haoussa are attacked by the Bornou at the end of the century. The city haoussa of Katsena, tributary of Bornou, is Islamized by a Moslem originating in Tlemcen.

At the end of the 15th century, the fleet hanséate is surroundings 60 000 tons. It is made up since the 12th century of Koggen, rapids and handy, replaced at the 14th century by hourques the corpulent flat-bottomed ones (300 tons) then at the end of XVe by of Krawel borrowed from the Atlantic navigators.

Under Mathias Corvin, the population of the Hungary reached 3,5 million inhabitants, divided for 1/3 in 800 boroughs from 500 to 1000 inhabitants, the remainder living on the domanial grounds, as a peasants majority.

Since the 14th century, agriculture progressed thanks to the improvement of the techniques and with the extension of the surface cultivateds. The rural company was different: to the tenants censitaires having a hereditary tenure oppose the serfs sharecroppers who exploit the “reserves” of the lords and the peasants without grounds which rent their arms. The drudgery is the fact of the serfs sharecroppers; for the others, it is limited to maintains the residences seigneuriales. All in kind pay to the Masters ground (noble) of the royalties and silver, which are added to the increasingly heavy royal taxes.
At the end of the 15th century, of many Hungarian peasants, subjected to a system seigneurial whom they consider too heavy, takes refuge on the grounds of the sultan where them fate is better.
the cities developed. Buda account a score of thousands of inhabitants. They link the commercial functions with the administrative offices. The period angevine at sight rise of mining industries, especially the gold and money of Slovakia and Transylvania; the 15th century, a new process allows copper exports towards the Austria and the Thuringe.

the America précolombienne would have counted from 75 to 100 million inhabitants, including 25 in North America. The effects of the European conquest cause the collapse of the indigenous population which, victim of the massacres and the diseases brought by conquerors (measles, variola, influenza, typhus, etc) counts nothing any more but one ten million inhabitants in 1600.

October 12th: Discovered Americas by Christophe Colomb. In fact, it poses the foot on a 'small island located at the East of the archipelago of the the Bahamas, named Guanahani by its inhabitants, the Taïnos Indians, whom it names San Salvador.
1497 : Vasco de Gama passes the Cape of Good Hope
forty workshops of Imprimerie are created in Italy, France and Spain between 1490 and 1499.
the Portuguese introduce the Manioc and the Maïs along the gulf of Guinea.

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