Year 1484

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Year 1484 (MCDLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

  • March 26 – William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints his translation of Aesop’s Fables in London.
  • May 30 – Charles VIII of France (Charles l’Affable) is crowned.
  • June 22 – First known book printed by a woman, Anna Rügerin, an edition of Eike of Repgow’s compendium of customary law, the Sachsenspiegel, produced in Augsburg.
  • July 6 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the 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, is defeated by forces loyal to Albany’s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
  • August 29 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV, as the 213th pope.
  • September 21 – Treaty of Nottingham: A three-year truce between the kingdoms of England and Scotland is signed.
  • December 5 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, giving the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany, led by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.

Date unknown

  • The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria.
  • The first cuirassier units (kyrissers) are formed in Austria.
  • The King of Portugal appoints a commission of mathematicians to perfect tables, to help seamen find their latitude.
  • Maximilian I, Duke of Burgundy, orders foreign merchants to leave Bruges. Most merchants move to Antwerp, greatly contributing to its growth as an international trading center.
  • Battle of Leitzersdorf: The Imperial Army of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated by the Hungarians.

Births

Huldrych Zwingli

  • January 1 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1531)
  • January 17 – George Spalatin, German religious reformer (d. 1545)
  • February 21 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1499–1535) (d. 1535)
  • March 4 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1543)
  • April 12
    • Maharana Sangram Singh, Rana of Mewar (d. 1528)
    • Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
  • April 23 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (d. 1558)
  • June 25 – Bartholomeus V. Welser, German banker (d. 1561)
  • July 11 – Ottaviano de’ Medici, Italian politician (d. 1546)
  • November 29 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (d. 1551)
  • December 13 – Paul Speratus, German Lutheran (d. 1551)
  • date unknown – Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (d. 1531)
  • date unknown – Luisa de Medrano, Spanish scholar (d. 1527)
  • date unknown – Purandara Dasa, Indian composer and saint (d. 1564)

Deaths

  • March 4 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
  • March 5 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (b. 1443)
  • April 9 – Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. c. 1473)
  • May 1 – Adalbert of Saxony, Administrator of Mainz (1482–1484) (b. 1467)
  • July 11 – Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1429)
  • July 14 – Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (1478–1484) (b. 1441)
  • August 12 – Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
  • August 20 – Ippolita Maria Sforza, Italian noble (b. 1446)
  • October 2 – Isabel of Cambridge, Countess of Essex (b. 1409)
  • December – Premislav of Tost, Silesian ruler (b. 1425)
  • date unknown
    • William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (b. 1410)
    • Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (b. 1432)
    • Barbara von Ottenheim, German sculpture model (b. 1430)