1484
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s
|
| Years: | 1481 1482 1483 - 1484 - 1485 1486 1487 |
| 1484 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1484 was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
[edit] Events of 1484
- March 26 - William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
- July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of 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 defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas captured.
- August 29 - Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV as the 213th pope.
- September 15 - Peter Arbues, is assassinated while praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain and he died on September 17. He had been appointed Inquisitor of Aragon by the Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in the campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.
- December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger
- The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria
- First cuirassier units (kyrissers) formed in Austria
| Gregorian calendar | 1484 MCDLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2237 |
| Armenian calendar | 933 ԹՎ ՋԼԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -360 – -359 |
| Berber calendar | 2434 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2028 |
| Burmese calendar | 846 |
| Chinese calendar | 4120/4180-12-3 (癸卯年十二月初三日) — to — 4121/4181-12-14(甲辰年十二月十四日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1200 – 1201 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1476 – 1477 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5244 – 5245 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1539 – 1540 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1406 – 1407 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4585 – 4586 |
| Holocene calendar | 11484 |
| Iranian calendar | 862 – 863 |
| Islamic calendar | 888 – 889 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 16 (文明16年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2144 (皇紀2144年) |
| Julian calendar | 1529 |
| Korean calendar | 3817 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2027 |
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (died 1531)
- January 17 - George Spalatin, German religious reformer (died 1545)
- February 21 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (died 1535)
- March 4 - George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1543)
- April 12 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (died 1546)
- April 23 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (died 1558)
- August 24 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (died 1566)
- November 29 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (died 1551)
- date unknown
- Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (died 1531)
[edit] Deaths
- March 4 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (born 1458)
- April 9 - Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (born c. 1473)
- July 11 - Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (born c1429)
- August 12
- Pope Sixtus IV (born 1414)
- George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (born 1395)
- October 2 - Isabel Plantagenet, descendant of Edward III of England
- December - Premislav of Tost, Silesian ruler (born 1425)
- date unknown
- William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (born 1410)
- Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (born 1432)af:1484
am:1484 እ.ኤ.አ. ar:1484 an:1484 ast:1484 az:1484 bn:১৪৮৪ map-bms:1484 be:1484 be-x-old:1484 bh:१४८४ bs:1484 br:1484 bg:1484 ca:1484 cv:1484 cs:1484 co:1484 cy:1484 da:1484 de:1484 et:1484 el:1484 es:1484 eo:1484 eu:1484 fr:1484 gd:1484 gl:1484 ko:1484년 hy:1484 hi:1484 hr:1484. io:1484 bpy:মারি ১৪৮৪ id:1484 ia:1484 os:1484 is:1484 it:1484 he:1484 jv:1484 ka:1484 sw:1484 ht:1484 (almanak jilyen) la:1484 lb:1484 lt:XV amžiaus 9-as dešimtmetis#1484 lmo:1484 hu:1484 mk:1484 mi:1484 mr:इ.स. १४८४ ms:1484 nah:1484 nl:1484 new:१४८४ ja:1484年 nap:1484 no:1484 nn:1484 nrm:1484 oc:1484 uz:1484 pi:१४८४ nds:1484 pl:1484 pt:1484 ksh:Joohr 1484 ro:1484 ru:1484 год sq:1484 scn:1484 simple:1484 sk:1484 sl:1484 sr:1484 su:1484 fi:1484 sv:1484 tl:1484 tt:1484 th:พ.ศ. 2027 tr:1484 uk:1484 vec:1484 zh-yue:1484年 zh:1484年
