1479

1479 (MCDLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1479th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 479th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 15th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1470s decade. As of the start of 1479, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1479 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1479 MCDLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2232
Armenian calendar	928 ԹՎ ՋԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	6229
Balinese saka calendar	1400–1401
Bengali calendar	886
Berber calendar	2429
English Regnal year	18 Edw. 4 – 19 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2023
Burmese calendar	841
Byzantine calendar	6987–6988
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4175 or 4115     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4176 or 4116
Coptic calendar	1195–1196
Discordian calendar	2645
Ethiopian calendar	1471–1472
Hebrew calendar	5239–5240
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1535–1536
- Shaka Samvat	1400–1401
- Kali Yuga	4579–4580
Holocene calendar	11479
Igbo calendar	479–480
Iranian calendar	857–858
Islamic calendar	883–884
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 11 (文明１１年)
Javanese calendar	1395–1396
Julian calendar	1479 MCDLXXIX
Korean calendar	3812
Minguo calendar	433 before ROC 民前433年
Nanakshahi calendar	11
Thai solar calendar	2021–2022
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dog) 1605 or 1224 or 452     — to — ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 1606 or 1225 or 453

Events

• January 20 – Ferdinand II becomes king of Aragon and rules together with his wife Isabella, queen of Castile over most of the Iberian peninsula. Together they take over Granada in 1492, ending 800 years of Moorish rule.
• January 25 – Treaty of Istanbul between Ottoman Empire and Republic of Venice, in which Venice agrees to give land to the Ottomans and pay them 10,000 ducats a year.
• August 7 – Battle of Guinegate – A French army sent to invade the Netherlands is defeated by Maximilian of Austria.
• September 4 – Treaty of Alcáçovas ends War of Castilian Succession.
• October 13 – Battle of Kenyérmező – The Hungarian army led by Pál Kinizsi and István Báthori defeats the Ottoman Turk army in Transsylvania, Hungary.
• Christopher Columbus, a sailor and trader in the Genoese community in Portugal, marries Felipa Perestrelo Moniz and receives as dowry her dead father's maps and papers charting the seas and winds around the Madeira Islands and other Portuguese island colonies.