1480

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1450s  1460s  1470s  – 1480s –  1490s  1500s  1510s
Years:	1477 1478 1479 – 1480 – 1481 1482 1483

1480 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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

Events of 1480

• March 6 – Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso of Portugal, and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain.
• July 28 – Mohamed 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.
• 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 of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics and unconverted Jews).
• Theotokos of Vladimir is moved to Moscow.

1480 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1480 MCDLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2233
Armenian calendar	929 ԹՎ ՋԻԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-364 – -363
Bengali calendar	887
Berber calendar	2430
Buddhist calendar	2024
Burmese calendar	842
Byzantine calendar	6988 – 6989
Chinese calendar	己亥年十一月二十日 (4116/4176-11-20) — to — 庚子年十二月初一日 (4117/4177-12-1)
Coptic calendar	1196 – 1197
Ethiopian calendar	1472 – 1473
Hebrew calendar	5240 – 5241
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1536 – 1537
- Shaka Samvat	1402 – 1403
- Kali Yuga	4581 – 4582
Holocene calendar	11480
Iranian calendar	858 – 859
Islamic calendar	884 – 885
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 12 (文明12年)
Korean calendar	3813
Thai solar calendar	2023

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)