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Year '1482' was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

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Events of 1482

Births

Deaths

Events of 1482

★ Portuguese erect the Fort of Sao Jorge de Mina (Fort Elmina) near the mouth of River Benya on the Gold Coast

★ Tizoc rules the Aztecs

★ Diogo Cão, a Portuguese navigator, becomes the first European to sail up the Congo.

★ Ivan III renounces the Mongol Khanate rule over Russia

★ Fictive date of Victor Hugo's ''Notre-Dame de Paris'' (''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'')

Births

★ March 7 - Fray Thomas de San Martín, scholar (died 1555)

★ April - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian humanist (died 1535)

★ June 29 - Maria of Aragon, queen consort of Portugal (died 1517)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Richard Aertsz, Dutch historical painter (died 1577)

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★ Leo Jud, Swiss religious reformer (died 1542)

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★ Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (died 1531)

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★ Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (died 1511)

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★ Cho Kwangjo, Korean scholar (died 1519)

★ ''probable''

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★ Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (died 1532)

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★ Richard Pace, English diplomat (died 1536)

Deaths

★ March 27 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1457)

★ May 10 - Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1397)

★ August 25 - Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (born 1429)

★ September 10 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian mercenary (born 1422)

★ September 17 - William III, Duke of Luxembourg (born 1430)

★ September 22 - Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (born 1465)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Hugo van der Goes, Flemish artist (born c1440)