Events

• Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published.
• Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan.
• Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
• Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
• John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
• Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun.
• Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia.
• Catholic missionaries arrive in the African kingdom of Kongo.
• Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany.
• Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action in small-bore tubes.
• December 19 - Anne of Brittany married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy

Births

• February 17 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (died 1527)
• March 24 - Georg Agricola, German scholar and scientist (died 1555)
• May 16 - Duke Albert of Prussia (died 1568)
• June 28 - Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (died 1545)
• October 12 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (died 1548)
• November 10 - John III, Duke of Cleves (died 1539)
• Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (died 1556)
• Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (died 1547)
• Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1566)
• Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (died 1551)
• Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (died 1557)
• Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (died 1557)
• Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, German theologian (died 1561)
• Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (died 1567)
• John Taverner, English composer and organist (died 1545)
• Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (died 1566)

Deaths

• January 27 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (born 1435)
• March 6 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
• April 6 - King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (born 1443)
• May 22 - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (born 1416)
• Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist
• Charles I of Savoy (born 1468)

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