1484

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Years: 1481 1482 1483 - 1484 - 1485 1486 1487

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

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

Events

• January 25 - Peter Arbues, chief of the Spanish Inquisition, is assassinated when he is praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain
• July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River
• December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger

• The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria
• First cuirassier units (kyrissers) formed in Austria

Births

• January 1 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (died 1531)
• January 17 - George Spalatin, German relgious reformer (died 1545)
• February 21 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (died 1535)
• April 12 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (died 1546)
• November 29 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (died 1551)
• Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1543)
• Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (died 1566)
• Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (died 1558)
• Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (died 1531)

Deaths

• March 4 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (born 1458)
• August 12 - Pope Sixtus IV (born 1414)
• August 12 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (born 1395)
• William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (born 1410)
• Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor
• John of Kolno, Polish navigator (born 1435)
• Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (born 1432)