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Year '1480' was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

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Events of 1480

Births

Deaths

Events of 1480

★ March 6 - Treaty of Toledo - Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize African conquests of Afonso of Portugal and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain.

★ July 28 - Mohamed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes

★ July 28 - An Ottoman army lands near Otranto, Italy. Pope Sixtus IV calls for a crusade to drive it away.

★ October - Great stand on the Ugra river - Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde.

★ Ludovico Sforza becomes Regent of Milan (reigns until 1499)

★ Consorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics in converted Jews)

★ Leonardo da Vinci invents the parachute.

Births

★ January 10 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (died 1530)

★ February 3 - Fernão de Magalhães, portuguese navigator (died 1521)

★ February 13 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (died 1542)

★ April 10 - Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (died 1504)

★ April 14 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (died 1519)

★ June 1 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (died 1550)

★ October - Saint Cajetan, founder of the Theatines (died 1547)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (died 1539)

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★ Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (died 1541)

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★ Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (died 1541)

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★ Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (died 1528)

★ ''probable''

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★ Arasibo, Taino Cacique

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★ Hans Baldung, German painter (died 1545)

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★ Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (died 1562)

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★ Johann Georg Faust, German alchemist (died 1540)

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★ Jumacao, Taino Cacique

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★ Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (died 1559)

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★ Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian engraver (died c.1534)

Deaths

★ April 14 - Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (born c1415)

★ May 19 - Jan Dlugosz, Polish historian (born 1415)

★ June 6 - Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (born c1410)

★ July 6 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (born 1416)

★ July 10 - King René I of Naples (born 1409)

★ September 1 - Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (born 1413)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (born 1420)

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★ Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (born 1429)

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★ Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer (born c 1395)

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★ Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (born c1440)