Timeline November 1491

Events in November 1491 3

• 1491 Perkin Warbeck Surfaces in Ireland Yorkist pretender begins claiming the English throne A young man later known as Perkin Warbeck arrived in Cork and was persuaded by local Yorkist sympathizers to claim he was Richard of Shrewsbury, the younger son of Edward IV long believed murdered in the Tower of London. The claim launched a decade-long conspiracy against King Henry VII of England.
• 1491 Peace of Pressburg Settles the Hungarian succession dispute between rival claimants Maximilian I of Habsburg and Vladislaus II of Hungary signed a treaty at Pressburg ending their war over the Hungarian throne left vacant by the death of Matthias Corvinus. Vladislaus retained the crown of Hungary and Bohemia while Maximilian secured a claim to succeed should the Hungarian line fail.
• 1491 Capitulation of Granada Signed Ends the decade-long Granada War Boabdil, the last Nasrid emir of Granada, agreed to surrender the city to the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. The terms guaranteed religious and property protections for the Muslim population, though formal handover of the city did not occur until January 1492.