Genealogy Salsmans » Gijselbrecht de Roo (1445-1493)

Day of marriage January 12, 1469

• Graaf Karel I de Stoute (Bourgondisch Huis) was from 1467 till 1477 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1469: Source: Wikipedia
  • July 26 » Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place.
  • August 1 » Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise.
  • October 19 » Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

Day of death April 7, 1493

• Graaf Maximiliaan (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1482 till 1494 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1493: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 4 » Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
  • March 15 » Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
  • May 4 » Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
  • November 3 » Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
  • November 18 » Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
  • November 19 » Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1498 » Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
• 1499 » Galeotto I Pico, Duke of Mirandola (b. 1442)
• 1501 » Minkhaung II, king of Ava (b. 1446)
• 1606 » Edward Oldcorne, English martyr (b. 1561)
• 1614 » El Greco, Greek-Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1541)
• 1638 » Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyō (b. 1576)