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Events 
 Portuguese fortify Fort Elmina on the Gold Coast
 Portuguese erect the Fort of Sao Jorge de Mina near the mouth of River Benya
 Tizoc rules the Aztecs
 Diogo Cão, a Portuguese navigator, becomes the first European to sail up the Congo.
 Ivan III renounces the Mongol Khanate rule over Russia
 Fictive date of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)