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Tomas de Torquemada becomes Grand Inquisitor for the Spanish kingdoms of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, and Majorca. By 1498 he has had some two thousand "heretics" burned at the stake.
On the death of Edward IV of England on 9 April, his twelve-year-old son, Edward V, becomes king, with his father's brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, serving as lord protector. In June, Richard usurps the throne and is proclaimed Richard III.
Louis XI of France dies and is succeeded by his son, Charles VIII.
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