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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.
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.
James IV succeeds his father James III as King of Scotland.
Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford takes possession of Cardiff Castle.
Michelangelo Buonarroti becomes apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio.
Births
Correggio, Italian painter
Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (+ 1568)
Rabbi Yosef Karo, Jewish scholar (+ 1575)
Sebastian Münster, scholar, cartographer, cosmographer
Ursula Southeil, prophetess (conjectural date)
Deaths
June 11 - James III of Scotland
September 9 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany, from a fall from a horse
See also
The numbers 14 88 are sometimes used as a code to express a racialist message.
Category:1488
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