Treaty of Tordesillas
June 7, 1494
Spain and Portugal, negotiating in a Castilian town, moved Alexander VI's dividing line 270 leagues further west, inadvertently granting Portugal Brazil before anyone knew it existed. The treaty was signed by men who had never seen the lands they were dividing. It remains, legally, the basis of the linguistic map of Latin America.
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Also in 1494 (5 other events on record)
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- Savonarola Effectively Rules Florence · Europe · Religion
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.