1480

This article is about the year 1480.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1450s  1460s  1470s  – 1480s –  1490s  1500s  1510s
Years:	1477 1478 1479 – 1480 – 1481 1482 1483

1480 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1480 in poetry

1480 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1480 MCDLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2233
Armenian calendar	929 ԹՎ ՋԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	6230
Bengali calendar	887
Berber calendar	2430
English Regnal year	19 Edw. 4 – 20 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2024
Burmese calendar	842
Byzantine calendar	6988–6989
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4176 or 4116     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4177 or 4117
Coptic calendar	1196–1197
Discordian calendar	2646
Ethiopian calendar	1472–1473
Hebrew calendar	5240–5241
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1536–1537
- Shaka Samvat	1402–1403
- Kali Yuga	4581–4582
Holocene calendar	11480
Igbo calendar	480–481
Iranian calendar	858–859
Islamic calendar	884–885
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 12 (文明１２年)
Julian calendar	1480 MCDLXXX
Korean calendar	3813
Minguo calendar	432 before ROC 民前432年
Thai solar calendar	2022–2023

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

Events

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 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, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
• 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)