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Years:
1487 1488 1489 - 1490 - 1491 1492 1493
Decades:
1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s
Centuries:
14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

  • Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published.
  • Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan.
  • Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
  • Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
  • John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
  • Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun.
  • Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia.
  • Catholic missionaries arrive in the African kingdom of Kongo.
  • Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany.
  • Births

  • March 24 - Georg Agricola, German scholar, scientist (+ 1555)
  • May 16 - Albert, Duke of Prussia (+ 1568)
  • June 28 - Albert of Mainz, elector, archbishop
  • October 12 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer
  • Vittoria Colonna, Italian poetess (+ 1547)
  • Jean Salmon Macri, poet (+ 1557)
  • Andrej Perlah, Slovene mathematician
  • Philip, Duke of Nemours, son of Philip II of Savoy
  • Bernhard von Reesen Gdansk merchant (approximate date)
  • Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, German theologian (+ 1561)
  • John Taverner, English composer (approximate date)
  • Leonhard Kleber, German organist (approximate date)
  • Thomas Crecquillon, French composer (approximate date)
  • Claudin de Sermisy, French chanson composer (approximate date)
  • Adrian Willaert, Franco-Flemish composer, the founder of the Venetian school (approximate date)
  • Deaths

  • January 27 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Ashikaga shogun
  • Charles I of Savoy
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