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Years: 1484 1485 1486 - 1487 - 1488 1489 1490

Decades: 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

• Richard Fox becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• May 24 - Lambert Simnel is crowned King "Edward VI of England" in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. He claims to be Edward, Earl of Warwick and rivals Henry VII for the throne of England.
• June 16 - Battle of Stoke Field. The rebellion of Lambert Simnel, who pretended to be Edward, Earl of Warwick, son of the Duke of Clarence, is crushed by troops loyal to Henry VII
• Publication of the witch-hunter manual Malleus Maleficarum.
• Hongzhi becomes emperor of China (Ming dynasty).
• Aztec emperor Auitzotl dedicates Great Temple Pyramid of Tenochtitlán with thousands of human sacrifices.
• Diaz reaches the Cape of Good Hope.
• Spanish take Málaga.
• Italian architects begin to build the Kremlin in Moscow.

Births

• February 8 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (died 1550)
• July 17 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (d. 1524)
• September 10 - Pope Julius III (died 1555)
• Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (died 1531)
• Magdalena de la Cruz, Franciscan nun of Cordova (died 1560)
• Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama (died 1551)
• Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (died 1545)
• Stanisław Kostka, Polish noble (died 1555)
• Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (died 1537)
• Michael Stifel, German mathematician (died 1567)
• Giovanni da Udine, Italian painter (died 1564)
• Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (died 1528)
• William the Rich, count of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1559)

Deaths

• March 21 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (born 1417)
• September 9 - Chenghua Emperor of China (born 1447)
• September 30 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1400)
• William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel (born 1417)
• Charlotte of Cyprus, daughter of John II of Cyprus (born 1436)
• John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln
• Tlacaelel, high priest of Tenochtitlán (born 1397)af:1487

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