1484

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Year 1484 (MCDLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• March 26 – William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
• May 14 – Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable) is crowned.
• July 6 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the 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 21 – Treaty of Nottingham: Three-year truce between the kingdoms of England and Scotland signed.
• December 5 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus giving the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany, led by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.

Date unknown

• 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.
• Maximilian I, Duke of Burgundy, orders foreign merchants to leave Bruges. Most merchants move to Antwerp, greatly contributing to its growth as an international trading center.
• The Imperial Army of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated by the Hungarians in the Battle of Leitzersdorf.

Births

Huldrych Zwingli

• January 1 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1531)
• January 17 – George Spalatin, German religious reformer (d. 1545)
• February 21 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector 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)
• June 25 – Bartholomeus V. Welser, German banker (d. 1561)
• August 24 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (d. 1566)
• November 29 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (d. 1551)
• November 7 – Jón Arason, The last Icelandic Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
• date unknown – Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (d. 1531)

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 of Cambridge, Countess of Essex, 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)

References