Timeline April 1507

Events in April 1507 3

• 1507 Diet of Constance Imperial assembly convened by Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor-elect Maximilian I convened an imperial diet at Constance to secure funds and troops for a planned campaign into Italy against Venice. The assembly also took up reforms to the empire's judicial institutions. It was one of several diets through which Maximilian sought to consolidate imperial authority.
• 1507 Waldseemüller Map Names America First printed map to label the New World "America" German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published the Universalis Cosmographia, a large wall map crediting Amerigo Vespucci's voyages by naming the newly charted continent "America." It was the first printed map to use the name and to depict a separate Pacific Ocean. The map was produced in Saint-Dié, in the Duchy of Lorraine.
• 1507 Louis XII Crushes Genoese Revolt French king retakes Genoa after a popular uprising King Louis XII of France led an army into Genoa to suppress a revolt of local artisans and traders who had expelled French-backed nobles the previous year. He entered the city on 29 April 1507 and had the uprising's leader, Paolo da Novi, later executed. The suppression reaffirmed French control over the Ligurian city-state.