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French troops capture Milan. An attempt by Ludovico, who became Duke of Milan in 1481, to liberate the city the following year fails, and he is imprisoned by Louis XII. In 1508 he dies in France.
A Venetian fleet is destroyed by the Ottomans at Sapienza after a renewal of warfare between the kingdoms.
The Treaty of Basel establishes the independence of the Swiss Confederation after the Swiss defeat an army sent by Maximilian I at the Battle of Dornach.
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