1480


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

Contents
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''


Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (died 1539)


Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (died 1541)


Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (died 1541)


Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (died 1528)

★ ''probable''


Arasibo, Taino Cacique


Hans Baldung, German painter (died 1545)


Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (died 1562)


Johann Georg Faust, German alchemist (died 1540)


Jumacao, Taino Cacique


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


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''


Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (born 1420)


Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (born 1429)


Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer (born c 1395)


Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (born c1440)

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