Explore 63 historical events from 1480–1489.
Lucrezia Borgia was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She was a former governor of Spol…
Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI (died 1519)
Julius Caesar Scaliger, or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France. He employed the techniques and discoveri…
Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician and scholar (died 1558)
Sidonie of Bavaria was a member of the House of Wittelsbach. She was the eldest daughter of Duke Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich and his wife Kunigunde of Austria. She died later as a …
Sidonie of Bavaria, eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich (died 1505)
Jungjong, personal name Yi Yeok, firstly titled Grand Prince Jinseong, was the 11th monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. He succeeded to the throne after the deposition of his e…
Jungjong of Joseon (died 1544)
Ulrich von Hutten was a German knight, scholar, poet and satirist, who later became a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer.
Ulrich von Hutten, German religious reformer (died 1523)
John III of the Palatinate was the 48th Archbishop of Regensburg. He reigned from 1507 until his death.
John III of the Palatinate, archbishop of Regensburg (died 1538)
George Neville, Duke of Bedford was an English nobleman, a scion of the House of Neville. At birth, he was likely heir to great wealth, but due to the political failure of his fath…
George Neville, Duke of Bedford (born 1457)
The 1481 Rhodes earthquake occurred at 3:00 in the morning on 3 May. It triggered a small tsunami, which caused local flooding. There were an estimated 30,000 fatalities. It was th…
The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties
Mehmed II, commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice, from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February 1451 to May 1481.
Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman sultan (born 1432)
The 1481 Rhodes earthquake occurred at 3:00 in the morning on 3 May. It triggered a small tsunami, which caused local flooding. There were an estimated 30,000 fatalities. It was th…
The largest of a series of earthquakes struck the island of Rhodes, causing an estimated 30,000 casualties
Sikandar Khan Lodi, born Nizam Khan also known as Sikandar II, was Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate between 1489 and 1517. He became ruler of the Lodi dynasty after the death of his f…
Sikandar Lodi succeeds Bahlul Khan Lodi as Sultan of Delhi.
Charles II or Charles John Amadeus, was the Duke of Savoy from 1490 to 1496 but his mother Blanche of Montferrat (1472–1519) was the actual ruler as a regent. In 1485 his father Ch…
Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Italian nobleman (died 1496)
Thomas Cranmer was an English theologian who was a leader of the English Reformation and served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a sh…
Thomas Cranmer, English archbishop, theologian, and Protestant martyr (died 1556)
Ashikaga Yoshihisa was the 9th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1473 to 1489 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshihisa was the son of the eighth shōgun Ashi…
Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shōgun (born 1465)
Charles de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme was a French soldier, governor, Prince du Sang and courtier during the reigns of Louis XII and François I. Charles was the son of François de Bou…
Charles, Duke of Vendôme (died 1537)
Antoine, known as the Good, was Duke of Lorraine from 1508 until his death in 1544. Raised at the French court, Antoine would campaign in Italy twice: once under Louis XII and the …
Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (died 1544)
Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland KG was an English aristocrat during the Wars of the Roses. After losing his title when his father was killed fighting the Yorkists, he later…
Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician (born 1449)
Bahlul Khan Lodi was the chief of the Afghan Lodi tribe. He was the founder of the Lodi dynasty from the Delhi Sultanate, upon the abdication of the last claimant from the previous…
Bahlul Lodi, sultan of Delhi
Jungjong, personal name Yi Yeok, firstly titled Grand Prince Jinseong, was the 11th monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. He succeeded to the throne after the deposition of his e…
Jungjong of Joseon (died 1544)
Ulrich von Hutten was a German knight, scholar, poet and satirist, who later became a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer.
Ulrich von Hutten, German religious reformer (died 1523)
Sidonie of Bavaria was a member of the House of Wittelsbach. She was the eldest daughter of Duke Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich and his wife Kunigunde of Austria. She died later as a …
Sidonie of Bavaria, eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich (died 1505)
John III of the Palatinate was the 48th Archbishop of Regensburg. He reigned from 1507 until his death.
John III of the Palatinate, archbishop of Regensburg (died 1538)
Pedro Pacheco de Villena, also known as Pedro Pacheco Ladrón de Guevara, was a Spanish cardinal and viceroy of Naples. In Italian his name is spelled Pietro Pacecco. His nephew Fra…
Pedro Pacheco de Villena, Catholic cardinal (died 1560)
The Battle of Sauchieburn was fought on 11 June 1488, at the side of Sauchie Burn, a stream about two miles (3 km) south of Stirling, Scotland. The battle was fought between the fo…
The Battle of Sauchieburn is fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the king
Joseon, officially Great Joseon State, was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years. It was founded by Taejo of Joseon in 1392 and replaced by the Korean Empire in 18…
Joseon Dynasty official Choe Bu returns to Korea after months of shipwrecked travel in China.
James III was King of Scots from 1460 until his death at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488. He inherited the throne as a child following the death of his father, King James II, at …
James III of Scotland (born 1451)
Alvise Cadamosto was a Venetian explorer and slave trader, who was hired by the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator and undertook two known journeys to West Africa in 1455 and 14…
Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (born 1432)
Sir Edward Woodville was a member of the Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses. He survived the reign of Richard III in which several of his relatives were executed in a po…
Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (at the Battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier)
Choe Bu was a Korean diarist, historian, politician, and travel writer during the early Joseon Dynasty. He was most well known for the account of his shipwrecked travels in China f…
Choe Bu, an official of the Joseon dynasty, returned to Korea after months of shipwrecked travel in China.
The 1487 siege of Málaga was an action during the Reconquest of Spain in which the Catholic Monarchs of Spain conquered the city of Mālaqa from the Emirate of Granada. The siege la…
The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista
Lambert Simnel was a pretender to the throne of England. In 1487, his claim to be Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, threatened the newly established reign of Henry VII (148…
The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a
The Battle of Stoke Field, which took place at East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, on 16 June 1487, may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was the last major…
Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of t
Leeuwarden is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 127,073 (2023). It is the provincial capital and seat of the Provincial Council of Friesland.
Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
Ismail I was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is one of the most vital in the history of Iran, and the Safavid era is…
Ismail I of Iran (died 1524)