1480

1480 (MCDLXXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1480th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 480th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 15th century, and the 1st year of the 1480s decade. As of the start of 1480, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1480 MCDLXXX
Ab urbe condita	2233
Armenian calendar	929 ԹՎ ՋԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	6230
Balinese saka calendar	1401–1402
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	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

• 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
• Great standing on the Ugra river – Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde and Moscow becomes the capital of Russia.
• Ludovico Sforza becomes Regent of Milan (reigns until 1499)
• Concorts 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
• Mohamed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes
• Magdalen College School, Oxford starts.
• The Inca Empire conquers northwest Argentina.

Births

• Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the world.
• Pier Gerlofs Donia, a huge pirate who fought for the independence of Friesland.
• Pir Sultan Abdal, Turkish poet.
• Peter Henlein, German inventor who may have first invented the watch.

Deaths

• Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer