This article is about the year 1484.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
Decades: | 1450s 1460s 1470s – 1480s – 1490s 1500s 1510s |
Years: | 1481 1482 1483 – 1484 – 1485 1486 1487 |
1484 by topic |
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Arts and science |
Architecture - Art |
Politics |
State leaders - Sovereign states |
Birth and death categories |
Births - Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments - Disestablishments |
Art and literature |
1484 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1484 MCDLXXXIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2237 |
Armenian calendar | 933 ԹՎ ՋԼԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6234 |
Bengali calendar | 891 |
Berber calendar | 2434 |
English Regnal year | 1 Ric. 3 – 2 Ric. 3 |
Buddhist calendar | 2028 |
Burmese calendar | 846 |
Byzantine calendar | 6992–6993 |
Chinese calendar | 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4180 or 4120 — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4181 or 4121 |
Coptic calendar | 1200–1201 |
Discordian calendar | 2650 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1476–1477 |
Hebrew calendar | 5244–5245 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1540–1541 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1405–1406 |
- Kali Yuga | 4584–4585 |
Holocene calendar | 11484 |
Igbo calendar | 484–485 |
Iranian calendar | 862–863 |
Islamic calendar | 888–889 |
Japanese calendar | Bunmei 16 (文明16年) |
Javanese calendar | 1400–1401 |
Julian calendar | 1484 MCDLXXXIV |
Korean calendar | 3817 |
Minguo calendar | 428 before ROC 民前428年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 16 |
Thai solar calendar | 2026–2027 |
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.
- May 14 – Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable) is crowned.
- 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: Three-year truce between the kingdoms of England and Scotland 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.
- The Imperial Army of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated by the Hungarians in the Battle of Leitzersdorf.
Births
- 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
- Rana Sanga (d. 1527)
- 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)
- August 24 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (d. 1566)
- November 7 – Jón Arason, The last Icelandic Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
- 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)
Deaths
- March 4 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
- April 9 – Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. c. 1473)
- July 11 – Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1429)
- August 12
- Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
- George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
- October 2 – Isabel of Cambridge, Countess of Essex, descendant of Edward III of England
- 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)