1488
This article is about the year 1488. For the white-nationalist slogans, see
Fourteen Words .
Calendar year
Year 1488 (MCDLXXXVIII ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar .
Events
January–December
January 8 – The Royal Netherlands Navy is formed, by the decree of Maximillian of Austria .
February 3 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay , after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south, and entering the Indian Ocean .
February 28 – Choe Bu (1454–1504), the Korean Commissioner of Registers for the island of Cheju , shipwrecks on the south east coast of China in Taizhou, Zhejiang .
June 11 – Battle of Sauchieburn : James IV of Scotland becomes king after his father is killed in action.[ 1]
July 12 – Joseon Dynasty official Choe Bu returns to Korea, after months of shipwrecked travel in China.[ 2]
July 28 – Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier : Troops loyal to King Charles VIII of France defeat rebel forces, led by the Dukes of Orleans and Brittany , in the main engagement of the Mad War .[ 3]
September 9 – Anne of Brittany becomes Duchess of Brittany at the age of 11. Her marriage to King Charles VIII in 1491 effectively ends Breton independence from France.
Date unknown
Births
January 6 – Helius Eobanus Hessus , German Latin poet (d. 1540 )
January 20
March 19 – Johannes Magnus , last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544 )[ 4]
April 16 – Jungjong of Joseon (d. 1544 )
April 21 – Ulrich von Hutten , German religious reformer (d. 1523 )
May 1 – Sidonie of Bavaria , eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich (d. 1505 )
May 5 – Lê Uy Mục , 8th king of the later Lê dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1509 )
May 7 – John III of the Palatinate , Administrator of the Bishopric of Regensburg (d. 1538 )
June – Heinrich Glarean , Swiss music theorist (d. 1563 )
June 29 – Pedro Pacheco de Villena , Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1560 )
July 15 – Juan Álvarez de Toledo , Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1557 )
October 17 – Ursula of Brandenburg , Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1510 )
December 15 – Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria (d. 1550 )
date unknown
probable
Deaths
April 1 – John II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1426 )
April 14 – Girolamo Riario , Lord of Imola and Forli (b. 1443 )
May 9 – Frederick I of Liegnitz , Duke of Chojnów and Strzelin from 1453 (b. 1446 )
May 26 – Iizasa Ienao , Japanese swordsman (b. c. 1387 )
June 11 – King James III of Scotland (at the Battle of Sauchieburn ; b. c. 1451 )[ 5]
July 18 – Alvise Cadamosto , Italian explorer (b. 1432 )
July 28 – Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (at the Battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier ; b. c. 1456 )[ 3]
July 30 – Clarice Orsini , Florentine noblewoman and wife of Lorenzo de’ Medici (b. 1453 )
September – Abu 'Amr 'Uthman , Hafsid caliph of Ifriqiya (b. 1419 )
September – Lasse Huittinen , Finnish thief
September 9 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433 )[ 6]
September 13 – Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1434 )
October 11 – Geoffroy Cœur , French nobleman, son of Jacques Cœur
date unknown
References