{"slug": "pope-nicholas-v", "label": "Pope Nicholas V", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_V", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134588", "qid": "Q134588", "description": "pope of the Catholic Church from 1447 to 1455", "entries": 11, "years": 8, "span": [1397, 1455], "span_label": ["1397 CE", "1455 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 8}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "basel", "label": "Basel", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-eugene-iv", "label": "Pope Eugene IV", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "amadeus-viii-duke-of-savoy", "label": "Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-paul-iii", "label": "Pope Paul III", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "afonso-v-of-portugal", "label": "Afonso V of Portugal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "council-of-basel", "label": "Council of Basel", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "papal-bull", "label": "Papal Bull", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "history-of-slavery", "label": "History of slavery", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1397, "year_label": "1397 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363907908#Births", "title": "1397", "revid": 1363907908, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1440, "year_label": "1440 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 24", "text": "July 24 – At Basel in Switzerland, Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy is crowned as \"Pope Felix V\" by Roman Catholic cardinals of the Council of Basel who had voted to depose Pope Eugene IV as leader of the Roman Catholic Church. As Felix V, he is designated in Vatican history as the last \"antipope\". He remains in Basel and never travels to Rome to assume the papacy; in 1449, after the death of Eugene IV, Amadeus assumes an oath of loyalty to Eugene's successor, Pope Nicholas V.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343605568#July–September", "title": "1440", "revid": 1343605568, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1447, "year_label": "1447 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 19", "text": "March 19 – The coronation of Tommaso Parentucelli as Pope Nicholas V takes place in Rome. The crown is placed upon his head by Cardinal Prospero Colonna, who had come within two votes of being selected as the Pope on March 5.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359486325#January–March", "title": "1447", "revid": 1359486325, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1447, "year_label": "1447 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – On the fourth vote of the papal conclave, Prospero Colonna is still unable to gain more than 10 votes, and Cardinal Capranica addresses the group, warning that Rome would be under attack from the King of Aragon. At the intervention of Cardinal Giovanni Berardi, the cardinals begin voting for a compromise candidate, Tommaso Parentucelli, who wins 12 votes. Parentucelli then takes the regnal name of Pope Nicholas V, the 208th Bishop of Rome and Pope.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359486325#January–March", "title": "1447", "revid": 1359486325, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1448, "year_label": "1448 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Vatican Library is founded by Pope Nicholas V.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367832753#Date_unknown", "title": "1448", "revid": 1367832753, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1449, "year_label": "1449 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 19", "text": "April 19 – Pope Nicholas V is elected by the Council of Basel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365251873#April–June", "title": "1449", "revid": 1365251873, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1451, "year_label": "1451 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 7", "text": "January 7 – Pope Nicholas V issues a Papal Bull to establish The University of Glasgow; classes are initially held in Glasgow Cathedral.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358547324#January–March", "title": "1451", "revid": 1358547324, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1452, "year_label": "1452 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – Pope Nicholas V issues the bull Dum Diversas, legitimising the colonial slave trade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355060030#April–June", "title": "1452", "revid": 1355060030, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1455, "year_label": "1455 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – The papal conclave to replace the late Pope Nicholas V begins. For the first time, the conclave is held at the Apostolic Palace in Rome. In the first rounds of ballots, the two front-running candidates are Cardinal Latino Orsini and Cardinal Prospero Colonna, and Colonna receives a plurality of votes, but not the required two-thirds majority.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371446040#April–June", "title": "1455", "revid": 1371446040, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1455, "year_label": "1455 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 8", "text": "January 8 – Pope Nicholas V publishes Romanus Pontifex, an encyclical addressed to King Afonso V of Portugal, which sanctions the conquest of non-Christian lands, and the reduction of native non-Christian populations to 'perpetual slavery'. (Later there will be a dramatic reversal when, in 1537, the bull Sublimis Deus of Pope Paul III forbids the enslavement of non-Christians.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371446040#January–March", "title": "1455", "revid": 1371446040, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1455, "year_label": "1455 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371446040#Deaths", "title": "1455", "revid": 1371446040, "section": "Deaths"}}]}