Caterina Cornaro Abdicates
1489
The Venetian-born widow of the last Lusignan king of Cyprus was pressured to hand over the island to Venice. She was given a fief at Asolo, where she held a literary court attended by Pietro Bembo. Her abdication was cloaked in ceremony and coercion; Cyprus had quietly become a Venetian colony by paperwork.
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Also in 1489 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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