1488
This article is about the year 1488. For White nationalist slogans, see Fourteen Words.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
Decades: | 1450s 1460s 1470s – 1480s – 1490s 1500s 1510s |
Years: | 1485 1486 1487 – 1488 – 1489 1490 1491 |
1488 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 |
1488 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1488 MCDLXXXVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2241 |
Armenian calendar | 937 ԹՎ ՋԼԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6238 |
Bengali calendar | 895 |
Berber calendar | 2438 |
English Regnal year | 3 Hen. 7 – 4 Hen. 7 |
Buddhist calendar | 2032 |
Burmese calendar | 850 |
Byzantine calendar | 6996–6997 |
Chinese calendar | 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4184 or 4124 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4185 or 4125 |
Coptic calendar | 1204–1205 |
Discordian calendar | 2654 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1480–1481 |
Hebrew calendar | 5248–5249 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1544–1545 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1410–1411 |
- Kali Yuga | 4589–4590 |
Holocene calendar | 11488 |
Igbo calendar | 488–489 |
Iranian calendar | 866–867 |
Islamic calendar | 893–894 |
Japanese calendar | Chōkyō 2 (長享2年) |
Julian calendar | 1488 MCDLXXXVIII |
Korean calendar | 3821 |
Minguo calendar | 424 before ROC 民前424年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2030–2031 |
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Year 1488 (MCDLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- January 8 – 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 – Choe Bu (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.
Date unknown
- 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.
- Rathbornes Candles established in Dublin; the company will still be trading into the 21st century.
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)
- 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)
- Lütfi Pasha, Ottoman statesman (d. 1564)
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)
- July 28 – Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (at the Battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier)
- 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)
References
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