1480

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Years:	1477 1478 1479 - 1480 - 1481 1482 1483

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Year 1480 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1480

March 6 - Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso of Portugal, and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain.
July 28 - Mohamed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes.
July 28 - An Ottoman army lands near Otranto, Italy. Pope Sixtus IV calls for a crusade to drive it away.
October - Great stand on the Ugra river: Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde.
lighthouse of alexandria's final remains dissappreared.
Ludovico Sforza becomes Regent of Milan (reigns until 1499).
Consorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics in converted Jews).
Leonardo da Vinci invents the parachute.
An Ottoman fleet takes Otranto.

April 14 - Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (b. c. 1415)
May 19 - Jan Dlugosz, Polish historian (b. 1415)
June 6 - Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (b. c. 1410)
July 6 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
July 10 - King René I of Naples (b. 1409)
September 1 - Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (b. 1413)
date unknown
- Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (b. 1420)
- Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (b. 1429)
- Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer (b. c. 1395)
- Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (b. c. 1440)