what was happening around the time da vinci was painting "the last supper"?

Question

1495- 1498

Answer 1

1495 - Conquest of Naples by Charles VIII of France; he retreats to France.
Ferdinand II is restored to the thrown of Naples.
Maximiliam establishes the Imperial Chamber.
Extinction of the right of private warfare in Germany.

1496 - Encouraged by the success of Columbus, Henry VII of England sends John Cabot and his son, Sebastian, on a voyage of discovery.
Emanuel of Portugal fits out an expedition under Vasco da Gama to explore the Eastern seas.

1497 - The Discovery of the Mainland of North America by the Cabots.
Sten Sture offends the Swedish nobility, is defeated and stripped of his protectorate by John II, who enforces the Union of Kalmar; he is crowned at Stockholm.
Pinzon and Vespucci discover Central America.

1498 - Vasca da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope and reaches India.
Columbus makes his third voyage across the Western Ocean; he discovers South America; is arrested and returned to Spain in irons.
Arrest and execution of Savonarola at Florence.

Answer 2

Leonardo da Vinci submits plans to control the Arno River and avoid its disastrous flooding. The Florentine artist-scientist-engineer now serves Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan.

1492
Moors conquered in Spain by troops of Ferdinand and Isabella. Columbus becomes first European to encounter Caribbean islands, returns to Spain (1493).
Second voyage to Dominica, Jamaica, Puerto Rico (1493–1496).
Third voyage to Orinoco (1498).
Fourth voyage to Honduras and Panama (1502–1504).

1497
Vasco da Gama sails around Africa and discovers sea route to India (1498).
Establishes Portuguese colony in India (1502).
John Cabot, employed by England, reaches and explores Canadian coast.
Michelangelo's Bacchus sculpture.

Answer 3

Da Vinci was born out of wedlock in 1452 near Florence(da VInci)Lorenzo Medici was a benefactor,this after apprenticeship he worked with Botticelli and Perugino1479 to 1499.In 1479-99 Louis XII occupied Milan,where Leonardo painted The Virgin of the Rocks.The Last Supper.IN 1500 served Cesare Borgia son of Pope Alexander as military aid and engineer.In1515 Francis took Milan againLeonardo died in1519 in the arms of the king.He is interred in France .Twenty years after his death Benevenuto Cellini said no one lived who learned as much about sculpture,painting and architecture,still more he was a great philosopher.