1488

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1450s 1460s 1470s – 1480s – 1490s 1500s 1510s
Years:	1485 1486 1487 – 1488 – 1489 1490 1491

1488 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1488 (MCDLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1488

January 8 – The present Royal Netherlands Navy is formed by decree of Maximillian of Austria.
February 3 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south and entering the Indian Ocean.
February 28 – Ch'oe Pu (1454–1504), the Korean Commissioner of Registers for the island of Cheju, shipwrecks on the southeast coast of China in Taizhou, Zhejiang, during the Ming Dynasty. From then until July 12 he and his crew are hosted by Chinese military courier officers to travel along the Grand Canal of China, all the way to Beijing, and then finally back across the Yalu River into Korea. His written commentary on Chinese customs, foreign and domestic trade, and transport in places such as Hangzhou and Suzhou are valuable records of Ming era culture and commerce.
June 11 – Battle of Sauchieburn leads to James IV of Scotland becoming king.
July 28 Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier: Troops loyal to King Charles VIII of France defeat rebel forces led by the Dukes of Orleans and Brittany in the main engagement of the Mad War.
September 9 – Anne of Brittany becomes Duchess of Brittany at the age of 11. Her marriage to King Charles VIII in 1491 effectively ends Breton independence from France.
Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford takes possession of Cardiff Castle.
Michelangelo Buonarroti becomes apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio.
The city of Bikaner in western India is founded by Rao Bika.

**1488 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1488 MCDLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2241
Armenian calendar	937 ԹՎ ՋԼԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-356 – -355
Bengali calendar	895
Berber calendar	2438
Buddhist calendar	2032
Burmese calendar	850
Byzantine calendar	6996 – 6997
Chinese calendar	丁未年十二月十八日 (4124/4184-12-18) — to — 戊申年十一月廿九日 (4125/4185-11-29)
Coptic calendar	1204 – 1205
Ethiopian calendar	1480 – 1481
Hebrew calendar	5248 – 5249
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1544 – 1545
- Shaka Samvat	1410 – 1411
- Kali Yuga	4589 – 4590
Holocene calendar	11488
Iranian calendar	866 – 867
Islamic calendar	893 – 894
Japanese calendar	Chōkyō 2 (長享2年)
Korean calendar	3821
Thai solar calendar	2031

Births

January 6 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (d. 1540)
March 19 – Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
April 21 – Ulrich von Hutten, German religious reformer (d. 1523)
June – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (d. 1563)
August – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (d. 1534)

date unknown
- Rabbi Yosef Karo, Jewish scholar (d. 1575)
- Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (d. 1552)
- Oswald Myconius, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1552)
- Jan Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1561)
- Thomas of Villanova, Spanish bishop (d. 1555)
- Gustav Trolle, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1533)
probable
- Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1544)
- Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (d. 1525)
- Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (d. 1568)

Deaths

April 14 – Girolamo Riario, Lord of Imola and Forli (b. 1443)
June 11 – King James III of Scotland (b. c. 1451)
July 18 – Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
September 9 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)
September 13 – Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1434)
October 10 – Andrea del Verrocchio, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1435)
date unknown
- John II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1426)
- Iizasa Ienao, Japanese swordsman (b. c. 1387)