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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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