Year 1480 (MCDLXXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | |
Decades: | |
Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 1480 MCDLXXX |
Ab urbe condita | 2233 |
Armenian calendar | 929 ԹՎ ՋԻԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6230 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1401–1402 |
Bengali calendar | 887 |
Berber calendar | 2430 |
English Regnal year | 19 Edw. 4 – 20 Edw. 4 |
Buddhist calendar | 2024 |
Burmese calendar | 842 |
Byzantine calendar | 6988–6989 |
Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4177 or 3970 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4178 or 3971 |
Coptic calendar | 1196–1197 |
Discordian calendar | 2646 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1472–1473 |
Hebrew calendar | 5240–5241 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1536–1537 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1401–1402 |
- Kali Yuga | 4580–4581 |
Holocene calendar | 11480 |
Igbo calendar | 480–481 |
Iranian calendar | 858–859 |
Islamic calendar | 884–885 |
Japanese calendar | Bunmei 12 (文明12年) |
Javanese calendar | 1396–1397 |
Julian calendar | 1480 MCDLXXX |
Korean calendar | 3813 |
Minguo calendar | 432 before ROC 民前432年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 12 |
Thai solar calendar | 2022–2023 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1606 or 1225 or 453 — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1607 or 1226 or 454 |
Events
January–December
- March 6 – Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso V of Portugal, and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain (see Treaty of Alcáçovas).[1]
- July 28
- Mehmed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes.
- An Ottoman army lands near Otranto, Italy. Pope Sixtus IV calls for a crusade to drive it away.
- September 27 – Consorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics and unconverted Jews).
- October – Great Stand on the Ugra River: Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde. The Theotokos of Vladimir icon is credited with saving Moscow.
Date unknown
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria's final remains disappear when Qaitbay, Sultan of Egypt, builds the Citadel of Qaitbay on its site.
- Magdalen College School, Oxford, is established by William Waynflete.
Births
- January 10 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
- February 12 – Frederick II of Legnica, Duke of Legnica from 1488 (until 1495 and 1505 with his brothers) (d. 1547)
- February 13 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542)
- April 10 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1504)
- April 18 – Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1519)[2]
- June 1 – Tiedemann Giese, Catholic bishop from Danzig (Gdańsk) in Poland (d. 1550)
- July 5 – Philip of the Palatinate, Bishop of Freising and Naumburg (d. 1541)
- November 10 – Bridget of York, English nun (d. 1517)[3]
- October – Saint Cajetan, founder of the Theatines (d. 1547)
- date unknown
- Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (d. 1539)
- Claude Garamond, French publisher (d. 1561)
- Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (d. 1541)
- Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (d. 1521)
- Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1541)
- Gazi Husrev-beg, Ottoman statesmen (d. 1541)
- Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (d. 1528)
- probable
- Arasibo, Taino Cacique
- Hans Baldung, German painter (d. 1545)
- Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (d. 1562)
- Johann Georg Faust, German alchemist (d. 1540)
- Anna Taskomakare, Swedish merchant craftswoman and estate owner (d. after 1528)
- Jumacao, Taino Cacique
- Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (d. 1559)
- Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian engraver (d. c. 1534)
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (d. 1538)
Deaths
- January 5 – Jakobus, nobleman from Lichtenberg in the northern part of Alsace (b. 1416)
- April 14 – Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (b. c. 1415)
- May 10 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1458–1480) (b. 1417)
- May 19 – Jan Długosz, Polish historian (b. 1415)
- May 25 – William III, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (b. 1434)
- June 6 – Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (b. c. 1410)[4]
- July 6 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
- July 10 – René of Anjou, king of Naples (b. 1409)[5]
- July 15 – John III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, German nobleman (b. 1441)
- July 26 – Ruprecht of the Palatinate, Archbishop and Prince Elector of Cologne (b. 1427)
- September 1 – Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (b. 1413)
- October 4 – Jakub of Sienno, medieval Bishop Kraków in the years 1461–1463 (b. 1413)
- October 18 – Uhwudong, Korean dancer (b. 1440)
- November 20 – Eleanor of Scotland, Scottish princess (b. 1433)
- November 29 – Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (b. 1417)
- December 14 – Niccolò Perotti, Italian humanist scholar (b. 1429)
- date unknown
- Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (b. 1420)
- Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1395)
- Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (b. c. 1440)
- Joana de Castre, Catalan noble (b. 1430)
References
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