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Events on Friday 29 August 1484 1
1484Election of Pope Innocent VIIIGiovanni Battista Cybo chosen to succeed Sixtus IVFollowing the death of Sixtus IV, the College of Cardinals elected Genoese cardinal Giovanni Battista Cybo as pope on 29 August 1484. He took the name Innocent VIII and later authorized the papal bull against witchcraft that preceded the Malleus Maleficarum. His pontificate continued the political entanglements of the Italian Renaissance papacy.