Explore 90 historical events from 1480–1489.
Cho Kwangjo, also called by his art name Chŏngam (정암), was a Korean Neo-Confucian scholar who pursued radical reforms during the reign of Jungjong of Joseon in the early 16th centu…
Cho Kwangjo, Korean philosopher (died 1520)
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. Born in Florence, he was a notable local Renaissance figure. Christopher Columbus carried his…
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1397)
Margaret of Anjou was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Through marriage, she was also nominally Queen of France from 144…
Margaret of Anjou wife of Henry VI and Queen Consort of England and disputed Queen Consort of France (born 1429)
The 1481 Rhodes earthquake occurred at 3:00 in the morning on 3 May. It triggered a small tsunami, which caused local flooding. There were an estimated 30,000 fatalities. It was th…
The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties
Juana de la Cruz Vázquez y Gutiérrez, TOR,, was a Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular. Known to be a mystic, she was authorized to preach publicly, an extraordinar…
Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez, Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular (died 1534)
Christian II, was a monarch under the Kalmar Union, reigning as King of Denmark and Norway from 1513 until 1523. He was briefly King of Sweden from 1520 until 1521. As king of Denm…
Christian II of Denmark (died 1559)
Jorge de Lencastre was a Portuguese prince, illegitimate son of King John II of Portugal and Ana de Mendonça, a lady-in-waiting to Joanna la Beltraneja. He was created the second D…
Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (died 1550)
Francisco de Sá de Miranda was a Portuguese poet of the Renaissance.
Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (died 1558)
Mehmed II, commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice, from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February 1451 to May 1481.
Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman sultan (born 1432)
Christian I (Christiern I) was a German noble and Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union. He was king of Denmark (1448–1481), Norway (1450–1481) and Sweden (1457–1464). From 1…
Christian I, king of Denmark (born 1426)
Sir Thomas de Littleton was an English judge, undersheriff, Lord of Tixall Manor, and legal writer from the Lyttelton family. He was also made a Knight of the Bath by King Edward I…
Thomas de Littleton, English judge and legal author (born c. 1407)
The 1481 Rhodes earthquake occurred at 3:00 in the morning on 3 May. It triggered a small tsunami, which caused local flooding. There were an estimated 30,000 fatalities. It was th…
The largest of a series of earthquakes struck the island of Rhodes, causing an estimated 30,000 casualties
Afonso V, also known as the African, was King of Portugal from 1438 until he died in 1481, with a brief interruption in 1477. The son of Edward, King of Portugal, and Eleanor of Ar…
Afonso V, king of Portugal (born 1432)
Lucrezia Borgia was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She was a former governor of Spol…
Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI (died 1519)
Tiedemann Giese, was Bishop of Kulm (Chełmno) first canon, later Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Ermland) whose interest in mathematics, astronomy, and theology led him to mentor a number…
Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (died 1550)
Lorenzo di Pietro, known as Vecchietta, was an Italian Sienese School painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and architect of the Renaissance. He is among the artists profiled in Vasari's L…
Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (born 1412)
Antonio Squarcialupi was a Florentine organist and composer. He was the most famous organist in Italy in the mid-15th century.
Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (born 1416)
René I of Anjou was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 to 1480, who also reigned as King of Naples from 1435 to 1442. Having spent his last years in Aix-en-Provence, he …
René of Anjou, French nobleman (born 1400)