1480

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

1480 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1480 MCDLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2233
Armenian calendar	929 ԹՎ ՋԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	6230
Balinese saka calendar	1401–1402
Bengali calendar	886–887
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) 4177 or 3970     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4178 or 3971
Coptic calendar	1196–1197
Discordian calendar	2646
Ethiopian calendar	1472–1473
Hebrew calendar	5240–5241
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1536–1537
- Shaka Samvat	1401–1402
- Kali Yuga	4580–4581
Holocene calendar	11480
Igbo calendar	480–481
Iranian calendar	858–859
Islamic calendar	884–885
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 12 (文明１２年)
Javanese calendar	1396–1397
Julian calendar	1480 MCDLXXX
Korean calendar	3813
Minguo calendar	432 before ROC 民前432年
Nanakshahi calendar	12
Thai solar calendar	2022–2023
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 1606 or 1225 or 453     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Rat) 1607 or 1226 or 454

Events

January–December

• March 6 – Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso V of Portugal, and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain (see Treaty of Alcáçovas).^[1]
• 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.
• 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, is established by William Waynflete.

Births

• January 10 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
• 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 Catholic cardinal (d. 1542)
• April 10 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1504)
• April 18 – Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1519)^[2]
• 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)
• November 10 – Bridget of York, English nun (d. 1517)^[3]
• 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)
  • Gazi Husrev-beg, Ottoman statesmen (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)
  • Anna Taskomakare, Swedish merchant craftswoman and estate owner (d. after 1528)
  • Jumacao, Taino Cacique
  • Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (d. 1559)
  • Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian engraver (d. c. 1534)
  • Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (d. 1538)

Deaths

Eleanor of Scotland died 20 November

• January 5 – Jakobus, nobleman from Lichtenberg in the northern part of Alsace (b. 1416)
• April 14 – Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (b. c. 1415)
• May 10 – Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1458–1480) (b. 1417)
• May 19 – Jan Długosz, Polish historian (b. 1415)
• May 25 – William III, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (b. 1434)
• June 6 – Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (b. c. 1410)^[4]
• July 6 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
• July 10 – René of Anjou, king of Naples (b. 1409)^[5]
• July 15 – John III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, German nobleman (b. 1441)
• July 26 – Ruprecht of the Palatinate, Archbishop and Prince Elector of Cologne (b. 1427)
• September 1 – Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (b. 1413)
• October 4 – Jakub of Sienno, medieval Bishop Kraków in the years 1461–1463 (b. 1413)
• October 18 – Uhwudong, Korean dancer (b. 1440)
• November 20 – Eleanor of Scotland, Scottish princess (b. 1433)
• November 29 – Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (b. 1417)
• December 14 – Niccolò Perotti, Italian humanist scholar (b. 1429)
• date unknown
  • Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (b. 1420)
  • Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1395)
  • Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (b. c. 1440)
  • Joana de Castre, Catalan noble (b. 1430)