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Year '1488' was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

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Events of 1488

Births

Deaths

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Events of 1488

★ January 8 - The present Royal Netherlands Navy was formed by decree of Maximillian of Austria.

★ February 3 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, at the tip of Africa becoming the first known European to travel this far south.

★ June 11 - James IV succeeds his father James III as King of Scotland.

★ September 9 - Anne of Brittany becomes Duchess of Brittany at the age of 11

★ Battle of St.Aubin-du-Cormier. Troops loyal to King Charles VIII of France defeat rebel forces led by the Dukes of Orleans and Brittany in the main engagement of the Mad War.

★ Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford takes possession of Cardiff Castle.

★ Michelangelo Buonarroti becomes apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio.

★ City of Bikaner in western India founded by Rao Bika.

Births

★ January 6 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (died 1540)

★ March 19 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (died 1544)

★ April 21 - Ulrich von Hutten, German religious reformer (died 1523)

★ June - Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (died 1563)

★ August - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (died 1534)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Rabbi Yosef Karo, Jewish scholar (died 1575)

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★ Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (died 1552)

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★ Oswald Myconius, Swiss religious reformer (died 1552)

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★ Jan Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (died 1561)

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★ Thomas of Villanova, Spanish bishop (died 1555)

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★ Gustav Trolle, Archbishop of Uppsala (died 1533)

★ ''probable''

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★ Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England (died 1544)

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★ Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (died 1525)

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★ Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (died 1568)

Deaths

★ April 14 - Girolamo Riario, Lord of Imola and Forli (born 1443)

★ June 11 - King James III of Scotland (born c1451)

★ July 18 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (born 1432)

★ September 9 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (born 1433)

★ September 13 - Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1434)

★ October 10 - Andrea del Verrocchio, Italian sculptor (born c1435)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1426)

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★ Iizasa Ienao, Japanese swordsman (born c1387)

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