{"slug": "pope-sixtus-iv", "label": "Pope Sixtus IV", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sixtus_IV", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q163514", "qid": "Q163514", "description": "pope of the Catholic Church from 1471 to 1484 (1414-1484)", "entries": 12, "years": 10, "span": [1414, 1484], "span_label": ["1414 CE", "1484 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 8}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edward-iv", "label": "Edward IV", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-eugene-iv", "label": "Pope Eugene IV", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "otranto", "label": "Otranto", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "spanish-inquisition", "label": "Spanish Inquisition", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "george-of-podebrady", "label": "George of Poděbrady", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "papal-bull", "label": "Papal Bull", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1414, "year_label": "1414 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "July 21", "text": "July 21 – Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368828978#Births", "title": "1414", "revid": 1368828978, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1471, "year_label": "1471 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – Cardinal Francesco della Rovere, who received no votes in the initial round of balloting in the papal conclave, receives 13 votes and is elected as the new Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. He takes the regnal name of Pope Sixtus IV to become the 212th pope.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370196979#July–September", "title": "1471", "revid": 1370196979, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1473, "year_label": "1473 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 9", "text": "January 9 – Pope Sixtus IV lifts the order of interdict that had been placed by Pope Paul II on the late Bohemian King George of Poděbrady and his sons, granting absolution, after the sons convert to the Roman Catholic faith.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361813739#January–March", "title": "1473", "revid": 1361813739, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1473, "year_label": "1473 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 7", "text": "May 7 – Pope Sixtus IV appoints eight clerics to the College of Cardinals, the most in his career, the most since December 18, 1439 when 17 were appointed by Pope Eugene IV.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361813739#April–June", "title": "1473", "revid": 1361813739, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1475, "year_label": "1475 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 27", "text": "June 27 – After an 11-month siege, Charles the Bold abandons the Siege of Neuss when an imperial relief army from the Holy Roman Empire approaches; a papal legate of Pope Sixtus IV threatens excommunication of both Charles and Emperor Frederick III should the fighting continue, allowing both rulers to withdraw without loss of honor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369334832#April–June", "title": "1475", "revid": 1369334832, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1477, "year_label": "1477 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12 – Pope Sixtus IV grants a special dispensation for Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the three-year-old son of King Edward IV, is betrothed to 4-year-old Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, in a waiver of canon law that sets a minimum age for marriage as 14 for boys and 12 for girls. The children's wedding will take place on January 15, 1478.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330635656#April–June", "title": "1477", "revid": 1330635656, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1478, "year_label": "1478 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – The Spanish Inquisition begins as Pope Sixtus IV promulgates the papal bull Exigit sinceras devotionis affectus, permitting the Crown of Castile, at the request of Queen Isabella, to create the office of Inquisitor General, with the Dominican bishop Tomás de Torquemada to prosecute accused heretics.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359855585#October–December", "title": "1478", "revid": 1359855585, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1480, "year_label": "1480 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 28", "text": "July 28 – An Ottoman army lands near Otranto in southern Italy. Pope Sixtus IV calls for a crusade to drive the Ottomans away. Otranto falls on August 12 after a 15-day siege.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370179650#July–September", "title": "1480", "revid": 1370179650, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1481, "year_label": "1481 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – Pope Sixtus IV issues the papal bull Cogimur jubente altissimo, calling for Roman Catholics to participate in a crusade against the Ottoman Empire, starting with the Turkish-occupied southern Italian area in and around Otranto, with the liberation of Valona (now in Albania) to follow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365936509#April–June", "title": "1481", "revid": 1365936509, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1482, "year_label": "1482 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 – Pope Sixtus IV, in a special bull, grants self-government rights to the Italian town of Ascoli Piceno.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368493356#January–March", "title": "1482", "revid": 1368493356, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1484, "year_label": "1484 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 12", "text": "August 12 – Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346941150#Deaths", "title": "1484", "revid": 1346941150, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1484, "year_label": "1484 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 29", "text": "August 29 – Giovanni Battista Cybo, Bishop of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, is elected to succeed the late Pope Sixtus IV (who died on August 12) as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and takes the regnal name of Pope Innocent VIII as, the 213th pope.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346941150#July–September", "title": "1484", "revid": 1346941150, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}