1488

1488 (MCDLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1488th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 488th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 15th century, and the 9th year of the 1480s decade. As of the start of 1488, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1488 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1488 MCDLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2241
Armenian calendar	937 ԹՎ ՋԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	6238
Balinese saka calendar	1409–1410
Bengali calendar	895
Berber calendar	2438
English Regnal year	3 Hen. 7 – 4 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2032
Burmese calendar	850
Byzantine calendar	6996–6997
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4184 or 4124     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4185 or 4125
Coptic calendar	1204–1205
Discordian calendar	2654
Ethiopian calendar	1480–1481
Hebrew calendar	5248–5249
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1544–1545
- Shaka Samvat	1409–1410
- Kali Yuga	4588–4589
Holocene calendar	11488
Igbo calendar	488–489
Iranian calendar	866–867
Islamic calendar	893–894
Japanese calendar	Chōkyō 2 (長享２年)
Javanese calendar	1404–1405
Julian calendar	1488 MCDLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3821
Minguo calendar	424 before ROC 民前424年
Nanakshahi calendar	20
Thai solar calendar	2030–2031
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 1614 or 1233 or 461     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 1615 or 1234 or 462

Births

• January 6 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (d. 1540)
• January 20
  • John George, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian noble (d. 1533)
  • Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (d. 1552)
• March 19 – Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
• April 16 – Jungjong of Joseon (d. 1544)
• April 21 – Ulrich von Hutten, German religious reformer (d. 1523)
• May 1 – Sidonie of Bavaria, eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich (d. 1505)
• May 5 – Lê Uy Mục, Eighth king of the later Lê dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1509)
• May 7 – John III of the Palatinate, Administrator of the Bishopric of Regensburg (d. 1538)
• June – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (d. 1563)
• June 29 – Pedro Pacheco de Villena, Catholic cardinal (d. 1560)
• July 15 – Juan Álvarez de Toledo, Catholic cardinal (d. 1557)
• October 17 – Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1510)
• December 1 – Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg, Countess of Wied, German noblewoman (d. 1559)
• December 15 – Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria (d. 1550)
• date unknown
  • Rabbi Yosef Karo, Jewish scholar (d. 1575)
  • Oswald Myconius, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1552)
  • Jan Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1561)
  • Thomas of Villanova, Spanish bishop (d. 1555)
  • Gustav Trolle, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1533)
• probable
  • Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1544)
  • Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (d. 1525)
  • Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (d. 1568)
  • Lütfi Pasha, Ottoman statesman (d. 1564)

Deaths

• April 14 – Girolamo Riario, Lord of Imola and Forli (b. 1443)
• June 11 – King James III of Scotland (b. c. 1451)
• July 18 – Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
• July 28 – Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (at the Battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier)
• September 9 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)
• September 13 – Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1434)
• October 10 – Andrea del Verrocchio, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1435)
• date unknown
  • John II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1426)
  • Iizasa Ienao, Japanese swordsman (b. c. 1387)