Central Europe 1450-1500 (Chaos)

1450s: Genoese invent the commercial lottery (derived from a system they used for choosing officials).
1454: King dies without heir, so his lands fall to his old brother-in-arms of Geldern, who marries Gerhard's daughter (although she's 30 years younger than him... but well, this is royalty).
1456-69: between "Upper " (south of the Rhine) and "Lower Switzerland".
1460: The Hungarian nobles elect Ludwig of Bavaria-Landshut king , after king Karl / died without heir.
1464: Great finding of silver in Tyrol, which makes the er dynasty second-richest in . In 1472, their candidate Heinrich is elected Roman king.
Since 1466: Returning pilgrims spread the news that was conquered by the infidels. Many sects believe that the end of time is near (the date of 1500 is mentioned). At first the war gives them hope that Rome can be reconquered, but when -- gives up Rome in 1472, they become desperate. Unrest spreads. At the same time, the growing riches (and corruption) of the church (which rules many territories in ) and the growing power of the princes makes some people wonder about secularization of said territories.
1470: The young king of has to accept a new constitution, which gives every noble (15% of the Polish population!) the right to vote in the parliament, and introduces separation of powers.
1472-76: . After the death of king , the Poles hope for an easy victory, but the new king leads the Czech armies surprisingly well and drives the Poles back.
1475: When king secularizes and annexes the bistums of Augsburg and Trient for his lands, the HRE falls into a kind of Civil War. All the princes try to annex the clerical lands, which leads to lots of confusion and little wars for said lands, which are subsumed as the . The most important of those wars are the for (1485-93) and the (1486-91). For some time, there are three kings in the Empire (of Luxemburg, and Geldern respectively).
In the same year, in the bisthums of and , millenialist sects take the power, declare the (God's republic - another kind of theocracy). The latter ones even manage to extend their lands during the chaos of the war, deposing some small princes of NW Germany.
The Swiss use the opportunity and conquer the remaining lands of their archenemies, the s, in the Black Forest.
And to make the situation even worse, there are peasant uprisings (mostly in western Germany) who feel suppressed by the nobles. Those who can't flee to the territories of the Gottesfreistaaten where they're let in if they only swear to obey God's laws, are brutally suppressed.
1475-95: Germans fleeing from the Twenty-Year War in the HRE, and especially the religious fanatics ruling in Münster, go to the colonies of and the Netherlands.
1477: After defeating millenialist sects, de Medici becomes first duke of .
1481: Printing press with movable letters invented in the free city of Cologne by .
1493: The former monk who read a bit too much about the Roman republic during his time as library assistant in the monastery, starting as a "soap box preacher", declares the "" (republic of the Rhine), which is soon defeated by the duke of , however.
1495: King of Luxemburg deposes anti-king , is accepted as Roman king (better said: nobody complains). Not however in Switzerland and the theocracies of Münster and Würzburg, who have stopped caring about the HRE. The wars are over, but Germany lost about one fifth of its population. It takes them about half a century to recover.