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  • He also wrote a Requiem mass around 1460, which is lost. After an illness of several weeks, Dufay died on November 27, 1474. He had requested ...
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  • 300 copies of 754 pages, printed in Mainz in 1460, was executed in his workshop. Meanwhile, the Fust–Schöffer shop was the first in Europe ...
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  • a female figure. The Master of the Banderoles's 1460 work the Pool of Youth similarly shows a group of females standing in a space surrounded by ...
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  • The Portuguese reached Guinea between 1460 and 1470, around the time the Songhai Empire (early fifteenth to late sixteenth centuries) was one ...
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  • from an illuminated manuscript c. 1455-1460.]] Charlemagne and his army have been fighting for seven years in Spain. Marsilion, or Marsile, the ...
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  • tribute to the Ottomans in 1459 and around 1460 made a new alliance with Corvinus ... (where Vlad the Impaler had once lived) in 1460. Another allegation asserts ...
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  • After Pope Pius II in his bull, Execrabilis (1460) and his reply to the University of Cologne (1463) set aside the theory of the supremacy of general ...
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  • invade them as well, held out until 1460. Long before the fall of Constantinople, Demetrius had fought for the throne with Thomas, Constantine ...
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  • side of the case. Identified by this name by 1460, it was played either in the lap, or more commonly, rested on a table.Robert Dearling, The Ultimate ...
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  • The Greeks held out in the Peloponnese until 1460, and the Venetians and Genoese clung to some of the islands, but by 1500, most of the plains and ...
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  • ridge 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Cusco, around 1460, as a family home, a retreat, or a fortress. The intended purpose of the city has been a matter ...
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  • explorer Pedro de Cintra, who visited in 1460, gave the name Serra Lyoa (Lion Mountains), later changed to Sierra Leone by the British. Portuguese ...
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  • III of England|Edward III]]. Jean Fouquet, 1455 x 1460.]] The invasion by Isabella and Mortimer was successful: King Edward's few allies ...
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  • France, Flanders, and the Netherlands between 1460 and his death in 1475. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01246a.htm McNicholas, J.T. "Alanus ...
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  • pattern of discovery and settlement was repeated in 1460 with Fernao Gomes' discovery of the Cape Verde Islands, and in 1470 with the discovery ...
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  • Josquin became a choirboy there, probably around 1460, and was in charge of its music. He may have studied counterpoint under Ockeghem, whom he greatly ...
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  • of rifling was in Germany, around 1460, although the precision required for its effective manufacture kept it out of the hands of infantrymen ...
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  • [[Image:WorldShips1460.jpg|thumb|240px|Ships of the world in 1460, according to the Fra Mauro map. Chinese junks are described as very large ...
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  • Vasco da Gama (1460 or 1469–1524) led a Portuguese fleet of four ships to India from Lisbon in 1498, one of numerous Portuguese expeditions ...
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  • Mehmed II also conquered Mistra in 1460 and Trebizond in 1461. Mehmed allowed three days of looting (a custom at the time) then declared a halt ...
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