1480

Years: 1477 1478 1479 - 1480 - 1481 1482 1483
Decades: 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s
Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

1480 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
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Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
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March 6 - Treaty of Toledo - Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize African conquests of Afonso of Portugal and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain.
July 28 - Mohamed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes
July 28 - An Ottoman army lands near Otranto, Italy. Pope Sixtus IV calls for a crusade to drive it away.
Great standing on the Ugra river - Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde.
Ludovico Sforza becomes Regent of Milan (reigns until 1499)
Consorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics in converted Jews)
Leonardo da Vinci invents the parachute

January 10 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (died 1530)
February 13 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (died 1542)
April 10 - Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (died 1504)
April 14 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (died 1519)
June 1 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (died 1550)
October - Saint Cajetan, founder of the Theatines (died 1547)
date unknown
- Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (died 1539)
- Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (died 1541)
- Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator (died 1521)
- Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (died 1541)