1484
Information about 1484
| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s |
| Years: | 1481 1482 1483 - 1484 - 1485 1486 1487 |
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Events of 1484
- March 26 - William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, printed 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 defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas captured.
- August 29 - Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV as the 213th pope.
- September 15 - Peter Arbues, is assassinated while praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain and he died 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 with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger
- The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria
- First cuirassier units (kyrissers) formed in Austria
| Gregorian calendar | 1484 MCDLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2237 |
| Armenian calendar | 933 ԹՎ ՋԼԳ |
| Bah' calendar | -360 – -359 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2028 |
| Chinese calendar | 4120/4180-8-1 (癸卯年八月初一日) — to — 4121/4181-7-11(甲辰年七月十一日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1200 – 1201 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1476 – 1477 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5244 – 5245 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1539 – 1540 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1406 – 1407 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4585 – 4586 |
| Holocene calendar | 11484 |
| Iranian calendar | 862 – 863 |
| Islamic calendar | 889 – 890 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 0 (文明0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2144 (皇紀2144年) |
| Julian calendar | 1529 |
| Korean calendar | 3817 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2027 |
Births
- January 1 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (died 1531)
- January 17 - George Spalatin, German religious reformer (died 1545)
- February 21 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (died 1535)
- March 4 - George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1543)
- April 12 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (died 1546)
- April 23 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (died 1558)
- August 24 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (died 1566)
- November 29 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (died 1551)
- date unknown
- Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (died 1531)
Deaths
- March 4 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (born 1458)
- April 9 - Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (born c. 1473)
- July 11 - Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (born c1429)
- August 12
- Pope Sixtus IV (born 1414)
- George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (born 1395)
- October 2 - Isabel Plantagenet, descendant of Edward III of England
- December - Premislav of Tost, Silesian ruler (born 1425)
- date unknown
- William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (born 1410)
- Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (born 1432)
- Upper Paleolithic
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14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to 1400.
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- The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age
- Beginning of the Ottoman Empire, early expansion into the Balkans
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15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500.
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- 1402: Ottoman and Timurid Empires fight at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I.
- 1402: The conquest of the Canary Islands signals the beginning of the Spanish Empire.
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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 through 1600.
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- 1500s: Mississippian culture disappears.
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- Peter Henlein builds the first pocketwatch
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-1480- 1481 . 1482 . 1483 1484 . 1485 . 1486 . 1487 . 1488 . 1489 .
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-1480- 1481 1482 1483 1484 . 1485 . 1486 . 1487 . 1488 . 1489 . 1490
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This is the calendar for any leap year starting on Thursday (dominical letter DC), such as 2004.
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Julian calendar was a reform of the Roman calendar which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the
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March 26 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
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William Caxton (c. 1415~1422 – c. March 1492) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. He was the first English person to work as a printer and the first person to introduce a printing press into England.
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A printer is a company that provides commercial printing services, often also offering typesetting and book-binding services. The term can also refer to people who operate printing presses, or who run printing companies.
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Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving personified animals.
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