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Year 1480 (MCDLXXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • March 6 – Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso of Africa, and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain. (?? see Treaty of Alcáçovas )
  • July 28
  • Mehmed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes.
  • An Ottoman army lands near Otranto, Italy. Pope Sixtus IV calls for a crusade to drive it away.
  • August 12 - Ottoman invasion of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam. The Martyrs of Otranto are canonized in 2013.
  • September 27 – Consorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics and unconverted Jews).
  • October – Great stand on the Ugra river: Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde. The Theotokos of Vladimir icon is credited with saving Moscow.

    • Date unknown

  • The Lighthouse of Alexandria's final remains disappear when Qaitbay, Sultan of Egypt, builds the Citadel of Qaitbay on its site.
  • Magdalen College School, Oxford, established by William Waynflete.

    • Births

  • January 10 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
  • February 3 – Fernão de Magalhães, Portuguese navigator (d. 1521)
  • February 12 – Frederick II of Legnica, Duke of Legnica from 1488 (until 1495 and 1505 with his brothers) (d. 1547)
  • February 13 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (d. 1542)
  • April 10 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1504)
  • April 14 – Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1519)
  • June 1 – Tiedemann Giese, Catholic bishop from Danzig (Gdańsk) in Poland (d. 1550)
  • July 5 – Philip of the Palatinate, Bishop of Freising and Naumburg (d. 1541)
  • October 1 – Saint Cajetan, Italian Catholic priest and religious reformer (d. 1547)
  • November 10 – Bridget of York, English nun (d. 1517)
  • October – Saint Cajetan, founder of the Theatines (d. 1547)
  • date unknown
  • Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (d. 1539)
  • Claude Garamond, French publisher (d. 1561)
  • Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (d. 1541)
  • Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (d. 1521)
  • Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1541)
  • Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (d. 1528)
  • probable
  • Arasibo, Taino Cacique
  • Hans Baldung, German painter (d. 1545)
  • Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (d. 1562)
  • Johann Georg Faust, German alchemist (d. 1540)
  • Jumacao, Taino Cacique
  • Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (d. 1559)
  • Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian engraver (d. c. 1534)

    • Deaths

  • April 14 – Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (b. c. 1415)
  • May 19 – Jan Długosz, Polish historian (b. 1415)
  • June 6 – Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (b. c. 1410)
  • July 6 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
  • July 10 – King René I of Naples (b. 1409)
  • September 1 – Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (b. 1413)
  • December 14 – Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (b. 1429)
  • date unknown
  • Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (b. 1420)
  • Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer (b. c. 1395)
  • Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (b. c. 1440)

    • References

    1480 Wikipedia
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