1482

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Years: 1479 1480 1481 - 1482 - 1483 1484 1485

Decades: 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

• Portuguese fortify Fort Elmina on the Gold Coast
• Portugese erect the Fort of Sao Jorge de Mina near the mouth of River Benya
• Tizoc rules the Aztecs
• Diogo Cão, a Portuguese navigator, becomes the first European to sail up the Congo.
• Ivan III renounces the Mongol Khanate rule over Russia
• Fictive date of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Births

• Richard Aertsz, Dutch historical painter (died 1577)
• Franciabigio, Florentine painter (died 1525)
• Leo Jud, Swiss religious reformer (died 1542)
• Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (died 1532)
• Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (died 1531)
• Richard Pace, English diplomat (approximate date; died 1536)
• Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (died 1511)
• Georg Tannstetter, Austrian humanist (died 1193)

Deaths

• March 27 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1457)
• May 10 - Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1397)
• August 25 - Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (born 1429)
• Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (born 1400)
• Hugo van der Goes, Flemish artist
• Federico da Montefeltro, Italian mercenary (born 1422)
• Luca Della Robbia, Italian sculptor (born 1400)
• Philibert I of Savoy (born 1465)