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War of the Cambrai League – Franco-Venetian Union (1513-1516)

The French king Louis the whole of 1512 tried to separate Venice from the Holy League, and in the fall he succeeded. Negotiations continued...

Second Italian War – Italian War of 1499–1504

Milanese Prelude Louis XII, like his predecessor (Charles VIII, who died in 1498), had dynastic claims for the crowns of Naples and Milan (he presented...

War of the Cambrai League – Holy League (1511–1513)

Returning to Rome, the pope decided to create a new union, which would include, together with the papal state, Venice, Spain, England and, if...

War of the Cambrai League – Venetian-Papal Union (1510-1511)

The causes of the war At the turn of the 15th – 16th centuries, Venice still did not feel the full consequences of the Great...

Byzantine-Norman Wars

By 1057, a significant part of Calabria and a number of cities along the coast of Apulia remained under Byzantium rule. The expulsion of...

Norman Conquest of Southern Italy

In 999, Norman pilgrims, returning from the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, landed in Salerno, where they were hospitably received by Prince Guaimar III. At...

History of The Genoese Republic

The Genoese republic had possessions in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region, which it used as trading points. Of these were the islands...

The Great Famine (1315-1317)

The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (sometimes the period of 1315–1322 is given) is the first in a series of large-scale disasters of the late...

History of The East Frankish Kingdom

The Eastern Frankish Kingdom is a state created as a result of the Treaty of Verdun (843) of the Frankish Empire as the hereditary...

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

The transition from the republic to the imperial form of government led to a gradual erosion of the institutions of civil society. The Senate...

Chronicle Spreading of the Black Plague

The epidemic had a period of "forerunners". In the period from 1100 to 1200, plague epidemics were observed, but the plague also penetrated into...

The Life and Rule of Robert the Bruce – King of Scots

Early years Robert the Bruce, the eldest son of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, and Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, was born on July...

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