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.
• September 9 - Anne of Brittany becomes Duchess of Brittany at the age of 11

• 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.
• City of Bikaner in western India founded by Rao Bika.

Births

• January 6 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (died 1540)
• March 19 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
• Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
• Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
• Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (died 1534)
• Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (died 1568)
• Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (died 1563)
• Ulrich von Hutten, German religious reformer (died 1523)
• Rabbi Yosef Karo, Jewish scholar (died 1575)
• Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (died 1552)
• Oswald Myconius, Swiss religious reformer (died 1552)
• Jan Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (died 1561)
• Saint Thomas of Villanueva, Spanish bishop (died 1555)
• Gustav Trolle, Archbishop of Uppsala (died 1533)

Deaths

• June 11 - King James III of Scotland
• July 18 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (born 1432)
• September 9 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (born 1433)
• John II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1426)
• Iizasa Ienao, Japanese swordsman
• Andrea del Verrocchio, Italian sculptor

See also

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