5 March 1496PatentSebastian Cabot
Henry VII grants a patent to John & Sebastian Cabot to search for new lands
Historical records for England in 1496, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Henry VII grants a patent to John & Sebastian Cabot to search for new lands
Henry VII grants John Cabot and his sons authority to seek unknown lands under the English flag.
Princess Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, is born at Richmond.
Negotiations for the actual betrothal of Catherine of Aragon to Prince Arthur begin
Henry joins a wider European alliance intended to restrain French power and protect English diplomatic interests.
Membership of the Holy League aligns England with Ferdinand, Maximilian and Pope Alexander VI against Charles VIII.
Appointed Bishop of Lincoln
The restored Anglo-Burgundian settlement fixes commercial conditions and gives English merchants renewed access to Low Countries markets.
Henry's commercial policy seeks to improve English cloth exports and reduce damaging restrictions on overseas trade.
Henry supports Bishop John Alcock's conversion of St Radegund's former priory into Jesus College, Cambridge.
The Magnus Intercursus restores regulated trade with the Low Countries and establishes reciprocal commercial privileges.
Henry refuses to treat Iberian papal claims as preventing English-sponsored voyages into newly explored Atlantic regions.
James IV invades northern England in support of Perkin Warbeck, exposing Henry to a combined dynastic and Scottish threat.
Henry uses diplomacy with Burgundy to restore favourable conditions for English merchants after the trade dispute.
English exploration continues despite the Treaty of Tordesillas dividing overseas spheres between Spain and Portugal.
The settlement with Burgundy removes a major source of foreign support for Perkin Warbeck and forces him to seek another base.
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