1484
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| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s |
| Years: | 1481 1482 1483 - 1484 - 1485 1486 1487 |
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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
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Year 1484 was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
[edit] Events of 1484
- March 26 - William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
- July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River.
- July 22 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas is defeated by forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
- August 29 - Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV as the 213th pope.
- September 15 - Peter Arbues is assaulted while praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain; he dies on September 17. He had been appointed Inquisitor of Aragon by the Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in the campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.
- December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany, led by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.
- The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria.
- The first cuirassier units (kyrissers) are formed in Austria.
- The King of Portugal appoints a commission of mathematicians to perfect tables to help seamen find their latitude.
| Gregorian calendar | 1484 MCDLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2237 |
| Armenian calendar | 933 ԹՎ ՋԼԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -360 – -359 |
| Berber calendar | 2434 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2028 |
| Burmese calendar | 846 |
| Chinese calendar | 4120/4180-12-3 (癸卯年十二月初三日) — to —
4121/4181-12-14(甲辰年十二月十四日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1200 – 1201 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1476 – 1477 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5244 – 5245 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1539 – 1540 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1406 – 1407 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4585 – 4586 |
| Holocene calendar | 11484 |
| Iranian calendar | 862 – 863 |
| Islamic calendar | 888 – 889 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 16 (文明16年) |
| Korean calendar | 3817 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2027 |
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1531)
- January 17 - George Spalatin, German religious reformer (d. 1545)
- February 21 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535)
- March 4 - George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1543)
- April 12 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
- April 23 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (d. 1558)
- August 24 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (d. 1566)
- November 29 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (d. 1551)
- date unknown
- Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (d. 1531)
[edit] Deaths
- March 4 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
- April 9 - Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. c. 1473)
- July 11 - Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1429)
- August 12
- Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
- George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
- October 2 - Isabel Plantagenet, descendant of Edward III of England
- December - Premislav of Tost, Silesian ruler (b. 1425)
- date unknown
- William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (b. 1410)
- Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (b. 1432)
