1490

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Year 1490 (MCDXC) was a common year starting on Friday (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 Lèse-majesté.
• 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 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.
• Pêro da Covilhã 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.
• Tirant lo Blanch 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 (approximate date).

Births

• February 17 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527)
• April – Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (d. 1547)
• May 5 – Kieran McDonald
• May 16 – Albert, Duke in 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)
  • Caspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian (d. 1561)
• probable
  • Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (d. 1523)
  • Adriaen Isenbrandt, 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, Duke of Savoy (b. 1468)
• April 6 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)
• May 12 – Joanna, 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 – Beatrice of Silva, Dominican nun
• date unknown
  • Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist
  • Aonghas Óg, last independent Lord of the Isles

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