1490
Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
Decades: | 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s |
Years: | 1487 1488 1489 - 1490 - 1491 1492 1493 |
1490 in topic: |
Subjects: - Architecture - |
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Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1490 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1490
- Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published.
- becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan.
- Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother 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.
- Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp: the flame was enclosed in a glass tube placed inside a water-filled glass globe.
- December 19 - Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
- A small asteroid kills thousands in China.
- The Chinese scholar and printer Hua Sui invents bronze-metal movable type printing in China, although the earlier Wang Zhen had experimented with tin movable type in 1298 and the Koreans had separately innovated bronze movable type.
Gregorian calendar | 1490 MCDXC |
Ab urbe condita | 2243 |
Armenian calendar | 939 ԹՎ ՋԼԹ |
Bahá'í calendar | -354 – -353 |
Buddhist calendar | 2034 |
Chinese calendar | 4126/4186-12-11 (己酉年十二月十一日) — to —
4127/4187-11-20(庚戌年十一月二十日) |
Coptic calendar | 1206 – 1207 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1482 – 1483 |
Hebrew calendar | – |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1545 – 1546 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1412 – 1413 |
- Kali Yuga | 4591 – 4592 |
Holocene calendar | 11490 |
Iranian calendar | 868 – 869 |
Islamic calendar | 895 – 896 |
Japanese calendar | Entoku 2 (延徳2年) |
- Imperial Year | 2150 (皇紀2150年) |
Julian calendar | 1535 |
Korean calendar | 3823 |
Thai solar calendar | 2033 |
Births
- February 17 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (died 1527)
- March 24 - Georg Agricola, German scholar and scientist (died 1555)
- April - Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (died 1547)
- May 16 - Duke Albert of Prussia (died 1568)
- June 28 - Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (died 1545)
- October - Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (died 1557)
- October 12 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (died 1548)
- November 10 - John III, Duke of Cleves (died 1539)
- date unknown
- Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (died 1556)
- Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1566)
- Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (died 1557)
- Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, German theologian (died 1561)
- probable
- Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (died 1551)
- Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (died 1567)
- John Taverner, English composer and organist (died 1545)
Deaths
- January 27 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (born 1435)
- March 6 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
- March 13 - Charles I of Savoy (born 1468)
- April 6 - King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (born 1443)
- May 12 - Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal (born 1452)
- May 22 - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (born 1416)
- August 11 - Frans van Brederode, Dutch rebel leader (born 1465)
- September 1 - Beatrix da Silva, Dominican nun
- date unknown
- Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist
- Aonghas Óg, last independent Lord of the Isles