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1488
Years:
1485
1486
1487
-
1488
-
1489
1490
1491
Decades
:
1450s
1460s
1470s
-
1480s
-
1490s
1500s
1510s
Centuries
:
14th century
-
15th century
-
16th century
Contents
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
1 See also
Events
February 3
-
Bartolomeu Dias
of
Portugal
lands in
Mossel Bay
after rounding the
Cape of Good Hope
, at the tip of
Africa
becoming the first known
European
to travel this far south.
Battle of St.Aubin-du-Cormier . Troops loyal to King
Charles VIII of France
defeat rebel forces led by the Dukes of
Orleans
and
Brittany
in the main engagement of the Mad War .
James IV
succeeds his father
James III
as King of
Scotland
.
Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford
takes possession of
Cardiff Castle
.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
becomes
apprentice
to
Domenico Ghirlandaio
.
Births
Myles Coverdale
,
English
Bible
translator (d.
1568
)
Rabbi
Yosef Karo
, Jewish scholar (d.
1575
)
Sebastian Münster
, scholar,
cartographer
,
cosmographer
(d.
1592
)
Ursula Southeil
, prophetess (conjectural date) (d.
1561
)
Deaths
June 11
-
James III of Scotland
September 9
-
Francis II
,
Duke of Brittany
(b.
1433
)
See also
The numbers
14 88
are sometimes used as a code to express a
racialist
message.
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