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Years:
1485 1486 1487 - 1488 - 1489 1490 1491
Decades:
1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s
Centuries:
14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

  • 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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    This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "1488".


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