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Year 1484 (MCDLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • March 26 – William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
  • May 14 – Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable) is crowned.
  • July 6 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the 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, is defeated by forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
  • August 29 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV as the 213th pope.
  • September 21 –Treaty of Nottingham: Three-year truce between the kingdoms of England and Scotland signed.
  • December 5 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus giving the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany, led by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.

    • Date unknown

  • The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria.
  • The first cuirassier units (kyrissers) are formed in Austria.
  • The King of Portugal appoints a commission of mathematicians to perfect tables to help seamen find their latitude.
  • Maximilian I, Duke of Burgundy, orders foreign merchants to leave Bruges. Most merchants move to Antwerp, greatly contributing to its growth as an international trading center.
  • The Imperial Army of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated by the Hungarians in the Battle of Leitzersdorf.

    • Births

  • January 1 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1531)
  • January 17 – George Spalatin, German religious reformer (d. 1545)
  • February 21 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1499–1535) (d. 1535)
  • March 4 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1543)
  • April 12
  • Rana Sanga (d. 1527)
  • Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
  • April 23 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (d. 1558)
  • June 25 – Bartholomeus V. Welser, German banker (d. 1561)
  • July 11 – Ottaviano de' Medici, Italian politician (d. 1546)
  • August 24 – Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (d. 1566)
  • November 7 – Jón Arason, The last Icelandic Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
  • November 29 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (d. 1551)
  • December 13 – Paul Speratus, German Lutheran (d. 1551)
  • date unknown – Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (d. 1531)
  • date unknown – Luisa de Medrano, Spanish scholar (d. 1527)

    • Deaths

  • March 4 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
  • April 9 – Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. c. 1473)
  • July 11 – Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1429)
  • August 12
  • Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
  • George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
  • October 2 – Isabel of Cambridge, Countess of Essex, descendant of Edward III of England
  • December – Premislav of Tost, Silesian ruler (b. 1425)
  • date unknown
  • William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (b. 1410)
  • Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (b. 1432)
  • Barbara von Ottenheim, German sculpture model (b. 1430)

    • References

    1484 Wikipedia
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