1490
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
Decades: | 1460s 1470s 1480s – 1490s – 1500s 1510s 1520s |
Years: | 1487 1488 1489 – 1490 – 1491 1492 1493 |
1490 by topic |
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Arts and science |
Architecture - Art |
Politics |
State leaders - Sovereign states |
Birth and death categories |
Births - Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments - Disestablishments |
Art and literature |
1490 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1490 MCDXC |
Ab urbe condita | 2243 |
Armenian calendar | 939 ԹՎ ՋԼԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6240 |
Bahá'í calendar | −354 – −353 |
Bengali calendar | 897 |
Berber calendar | 2440 |
English Regnal year | 5 Hen. 7 – 6 Hen. 7 |
Buddhist calendar | 2034 |
Burmese calendar | 852 |
Byzantine calendar | 6998–6999 |
Chinese calendar | 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4186 or 4126 — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4187 or 4127 |
Coptic calendar | 1206–1207 |
Discordian calendar | 2656 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1482–1483 |
Hebrew calendar | 5250–5251 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1546–1547 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1412–1413 |
- Kali Yuga | 4591–4592 |
Holocene calendar | 11490 |
Igbo calendar | 490–491 |
Iranian calendar | 868–869 |
Islamic calendar | 895–896 |
Japanese calendar | Entoku 2 (延徳2年) |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | 1490 MCDXC |
Korean calendar | 3823 |
Minguo calendar | 422 before ROC 民前422年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2033 |
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Year 1490 (MCDXC) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- January 4 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered as guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.
- March 13 – Charles II becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
- July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje (now southwestern Slovenia).
- December 19 – Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
Date unknown
- Ashikaga Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan.
- Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Edward IV of England at the court of Burgundy.
- Traditional date of the Battle of Glendale (Skye) between the Scottish clans MacDonald and MacLeod.
- Catholic missionaries arrive in the African Kingdom of Kongo.
- Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia.
- Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany.
- Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action in small-bore tubes.
- Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp: the flame is enclosed in a glass tube placed inside a water-filled glass globe.
- All Saints' Church, the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg is begun.
- The Chinese scholar and printer Hua Sui invents bronze-metal movable type printing in China, although the earlier Wang Zhen had experimented with tin movable type in 1298 and the Koreans had separately innovated bronze movable type.[citation needed]
- Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan De Galba is published.
- Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
- John Colet receives his M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
- Johann Reuchlin meets Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
- Merchants carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca, Arabia (approximate date).
Births
- February 17 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527)
- March 24 – Georg Agricola, German scholar and scientist (d. 1555)
- April – Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (d. 1547)
- May 16 – Duke Albert of Prussia (d. 1568)
- June 28 – Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (d. 1545)
- October – Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (d. 1557)
- October 12 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548)
- November 10 – John III, Duke of Cleves (d. 1539)
- date unknown
- Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (d. 1556)
- Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1566)
- Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (d. 1557)
- Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, German theologian (d. 1561)
- probable
- Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (d. 1523)
- Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (d. 1551)
- Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1567)
- John Taverner, English composer and organist (d. 1545)
- María de Salinas, Lady Willoughby, Spanish lady-in-waiting and friend to Catherine of Aragon
Deaths
- January 27 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
- March 6 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
- March 13 – Charles I of Savoy (b. 1468)
- April 6 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)
- May 12 – Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal (b. 1452)
- May 22 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (b. 1416)
- August 11 – Frans van Brederode, Dutch rebel leader (b. 1465)
- September 1 – Beatrix da Silva, Dominican nun
- date unknown
- Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist
- Aonghas Óg, last independent Lord of the Isles
References
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