1480

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

Events

January–December

• March 6 – Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso of Africa, and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain. (?? see Treaty of Alcáçovas )
• July 28 – Mehmed 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.

Date unknown

• Lighthouse of Alexandria's final remains disappeared.
• Ludovico Sforza becomes Regent of Milan (reigns until 1499).
• Consorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics and unconverted Jews).
• Theotokos of Vladimir is moved to Moscow.
• Magdalen College School in Oxford is founded by William Waynflete.

Births

• January 10 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
• February 3 – Fernão de Magalhães, Portuguese navigator (d. 1521)
• February 13 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (d. 1542)
• April 10 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1504)
• April 14 – Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1519)
• June 1 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
• 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)
  • Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (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)
  • Jumacao, Taino Cacique
  • Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (d. 1559)
  • Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian engraver (d. c. 1534)

Deaths

• April 14 – Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (b. c. 1415)
• May 19 – Jan Długosz, 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)
• December 14 – Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (b. 1429)
• date unknown
  • Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (b. 1420)
  • Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer (b. c. 1395)
  • Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (b. c. 1440)

References