1480

Events of 1480

• March 6 - Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the 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.
• lighthouse of alexandria's final remains dissappreared.
• 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.
• An Ottoman fleet takes Otranto.

Births

• January 10 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
• February 3 - Fernão de Magalhães, Portuguese navigator (d. 1521)
• February 13 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (d. 1542)
• April 10 - Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1504)
• April 14 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1519)
• June 1 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
• October - Saint Cajetan, founder of the Theatines (d. 1547)
• date unknown
• Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (d. 1539)
• Claude Garamond, French publisher (d. 1561)
• Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (d. 1541)
• Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1541)
• Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (d. 1528)
• probable
• Arasibo, Taino Cacique
• Hans Baldung, German painter (d. 1545)
• Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (d. 1562)
• Johann Georg Faust, German alchemist (d. 1540)
• Jumacao, Taino Cacique
• Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (d. 1559)
• Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian engraver (d. c. 1534)

Deaths

• April 14 - Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (b. c. 1415)
• May 19 - Jan Długosz, Polish historian (b. 1415)
• June 6 - Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (b. c. 1410)
• July 6 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
• July 10 - King René I of Naples (b. 1409)
• September 1 - Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (b. 1413)
• December 14 - Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (b. 1429)
• date unknown
• Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (b. 1420)
• Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer (b. c. 1395)
• Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (b. c. 1440)