1480

Year 1480 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1480

* March 6 - Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso of Portugal, and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain.
* July 28 - Mohamed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes.
* July 28 - An Ottoman army lands near Otranto, Italy. Pope Sixtus IV calls for a crusade to drive it away.
* October - Great stand on the Ugra river: Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde.
* lighthouse of alexandria's final remains dissappreared.
* Ludovico Sforza becomes Regent of Milan (reigns until 1499).
* Consorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics in converted Jews).
* Leonardo da Vinci invents the parachute.
* An Ottoman fleet takes Otranto.

Births

* January 10 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
* February 3 - Fernão de Magalhães, Portuguese navigator (d. 1521)
* February 13 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (d. 1542)
* April 10 - Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1504)
* April 14 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1519)
* June 1 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
* October - Saint Cajetan, founder of the Theatines (d. 1547)
*"date unknown"
**Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (d. 1539)
**Claude Garamond, French publisher (d. 1561)
**Giovanni Guidiccioni, Italian poet (d. 1541)
**Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1541)
**Palma il Vecchio, Italian painter (d. 1528)
*"probable"
**Arasibo, Taino Cacique
**Hans Baldung, German painter (d. 1545)
**Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (d. 1562)
**Johann Georg Faust, German alchemist (d. 1540)
**Jumacao, Taino Cacique
**Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (d. 1559)
**Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian engraver (d. c. 1534)

Deaths

* April 14 - Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (b. c. 1415)
* May 19 - Jan Długosz, Polish historian (b. 1415)
* June 6 - Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (b. c. 1410)
* July 6 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
* July 10 - King René I of Naples (b. 1409)
* September 1 - Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (b. 1413)
*December 14 - Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (b. 1429)
*"date unknown"
**Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (b. 1420)
**Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer (b. c. 1395)
**Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (b. c. 1440)