1484

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

Events of 1484

March 26 - William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints 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 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 15 - Peter Arbues is assaulted while praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain; he dies 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, led by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.
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.

Births

January 1 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1531)
January 17 - George Spalatin, German religious reformer (d. 1545)
February 21 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535)
March 4 - George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1543)
April 12 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
April 23 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (d. 1558)
August 24 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (d. 1566)
November 29 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (d. 1551)
date unknown

Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (d. 1531)

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 Plantagenet, 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)

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