[Game] Count to 10,000

[The Investigator]

1486 - The Medici giraffe arrives in Florence.

[Spock]

1487 Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China

[The Investigator]

1488 - Battle of Sauchieburn leads to James IV of Scotland becoming king.

[Spock]

1489 A gold coin equal to one pound sterling, called a sovereign, is issued for Henry VII of England.

[The Investigator]

1490 - Charles II becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.

[Spock]

1491 The "Comet of 1491" comes 873,784 miles (1,406,219 km) away from earth, the closest ever recorded.

[The Investigator]

1492 -  Christopher Columbus "sails the ocean blue" on his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, intending to reach Asia and Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII as the 214th pope.

[Spock]

1493 Columbus lands on the coast of the island of Borinquen, which he renames San Juan (present day, Puerto Rico).

[The Investigator]

1494 -  Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica.

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1495 Henry VII of England commissions the world's first dry dock at Portsmouth. (and thus Star Trek is born, oh wait...)

[The Investigator]

1496 -  Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.

[Spock]

1497 Cornish Rebellion in England incited by war taxes.

[The Investigator]

1498 - John Cabot leaves Bristol on an expedition, never to be seen again.

[Spock]

1499 Edward, Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York, is executed for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.

[The Investigator]

1500 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara accedes to the throne of Japan.