| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s
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| Years: | 1477 1478 1479 - 1480 - 1481 1482 1483 |
| 1480 in topic: |
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| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
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Year 1480 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 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.
- 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 in converted Jews)
- Leonardo da Vinci invents the parachute.
| Gregorian calendar | 1480 MCDLXXX
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| Ab urbe condita | 2233 |
| Armenian calendar | 929 ԹՎ ՋԻԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -364 – -363 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2024 |
| Coptic calendar | 1196 – 1197 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1472 – 1473 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5240 – 5241 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1535 – 1536 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1402 – 1403 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4581 – 4582 |
| Holocene calendar | 11480 |
| Iranian calendar | 858 – 859 |
| Islamic calendar | 884 – 885 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei
12
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2140 (皇紀2140年) |
| Julian calendar | 1525 |
| Korean calendar | 3813 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2023 |
Births[]
- January 10 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (died 1530)
- February 3 - Fernão de Magalhães, portuguese navigator (died 1521)
- February 13 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (died 1542)
- April 10 - Philibert II (died 1504)
- April 14 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (died 1519)
- June 1 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (died 1550)
- October - Saint Cajetan, founder of the Theatines (died 1547)
- date unknown
- Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (died 1539)
- Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (died 1541)
- Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (died 1541)
- Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (died 1528)
- probable
- Arasibo, Taino Cacique
- Hans Baldung, German painter (died 1545)
- Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (died 1562)
- Johann Georg Faust, German alchemist (died 1540)
- Jumacao, Taino Cacique
- Conn O'Neill (died 1559)
- Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian engraver (died c.1534)
Deaths[]
- April 14 - Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (born c1415)
- May 19 - Jan Dlugosz, Polish historian (born 1415)
- June 6 - Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (born c1410)
- July 6 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (born 1416)
- July 10 - King René I of Naples (born 1409)
- September 1 - Ulrich V (born 1413)
- date unknown
- Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (born 1420)
- Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (born 1429)
- Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer (born c 1395)
- Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (born c1440)
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People of the year 1480 at Familypedia
42 people were born in 1480
19 children were born to the 14 women born in 1480
30 people died in 1480
967 people lived in 1480
Events of the year 1480 at Familypedia
12 people were married in 1480.
| Joined with | |
|---|---|
| John II of Nevers (bef1415-1491) | Jacqueline d'Ailly + Pauline de Brosse (c1450-1479) + Françoise d'Albret (c1454-1521) |
| Eleanor Gerard (1467-1542) | John Warren (1459-1518) |
| Elizabeth Graham (c1452) | William Livingston (-1513) |
| George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent (1454-1503) | Anne Woodville (c1438-1489)+Catherine Herbert (c1450-c1504) |
| William Livingston (-1513) | Elizabeth Graham (c1452) |
| Richard Michelbourne (c1460-) | Margaret Payne (c1460-) |
| Nicholas St Lawrence (1460-1526) | Genet Plunkett (1465-1526) + Anne Berford (c1468-) + Alison Fitzsimons (c1470-) |
| Stephen III of Moldavia (1433-1504) | Evdokia Olelkovna (c1444-1467) + Maria of Mangup (c1440-1477) + Maria Vochița of Wallachia (c1459-1511) |
| Anne Talbot (c1445-1494) | Henry Vernon (1441-1515) +Ralph Shirley (c1435-1459) |
| John Warren (1459-1518) | Eleanor Gerard (1467-1542) + Jane Arderne (c1475-) |
| Anne Woodville (c1438-1489) | William Bourchier (-1483)+George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent (1454-1503) |
| Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers (c1442-1483) | Elizabeth Scales (-1473)+Mary FitzLewis (-)+Gwenllian Stradling (-) |
There were 0 military battles in 1480.