1490

Year '1490' was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1490

Births

Deaths

Events of 1490

★ ''Tirant Lo Blanc'' by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published.

★ Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan.

★ Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.

★ Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.

★ John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.

★ Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun.

★ Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia.

★ Catholic missionaries arrive in the African kingdom of Kongo.

★ Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany.

★ Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action in small-bore tubes.

★ Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp: the flame was enclosed in a glass tube placed inside a water-filled glass globe.

★ December 19 - Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.

★ A small asteroid kills thousands in China.

★ The Chinese scholar and printer Hua Sui invents bronze-metal movable type printing in China, although the earlier Wang Zhen had experimented with tin movable type in 1298 and the Koreans had separately innovated bronze movable type.

Births

★ February 17 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (died 1527)

★ March 24 - Georg Agricola, German scholar and scientist (died 1555)

★ April - Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (died 1547)

★ May 16 - Duke Albert of Prussia (died 1568)

★ June 28 - Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (died 1545)

★ October - Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (died 1557)

★ October 12 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (died 1548)

★ November 10 - John III, Duke of Cleves (died 1539)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (died 1556)

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★ Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1566)

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★ Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (died 1557)

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★ Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, German theologian (died 1561)

★ ''probable''

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★ Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (died 1551)

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★ Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (died 1567)

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★ John Taverner, English composer and organist (died 1545)

Deaths

★ January 27 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (born 1435)

★ March 6 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)

★ March 13 - Charles I of Savoy (born 1468)

★ April 6 - King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (born 1443)

★ May 12 - Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal (born 1452)

★ May 22 - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (born 1416)

★ August 11 - Frans van Brederode, Dutch rebel leader (born 1465)

★ September 1 - Beatrix da Silva, Dominican nun

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist

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★ Aonghas Óg, last independent Lord of the Isles