1490

1490 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1490
MCDXC
Ab urbe condita2243
Armenian calendar939
ԹՎ ՋԼԹ
Assyrian calendar6240
Balinese saka calendar1411–1412
Bengali calendar896–897
Berber calendar2440
English Regnal year5 Hen. 7 – 6 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar2034
Burmese calendar852
Byzantine calendar6998–6999
Chinese calendar己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4187 or 3980
    — to —
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4188 or 3981
Coptic calendar1206–1207
Discordian calendar2656
Ethiopian calendar1482–1483
Hebrew calendar5250–5251
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1546–1547
 - Shaka Samvat1411–1412
 - Kali Yuga4590–4591
Holocene calendar11490
Igbo calendar490–491
Iranian calendar868–869
Islamic calendar895–896
Japanese calendarEntoku 2
(延徳2年)
Javanese calendar1406–1408
Julian calendar1490
MCDXC
Korean calendar3823
Minguo calendar422 before ROC
民前422年
Nanakshahi calendar22
Thai solar calendar2032–2033
Tibetan calendarས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Earth-Bird)
1616 or 1235 or 463
    — to —
ལྕགས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Iron-Dog)
1617 or 1236 or 464

Year 1490 (MCDXC) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

  • January 4 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who ally themselves with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of Lèse-majesté.
  • March 13 – Charles II becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
  • March or April – 1490 Qingyang event, a presumed meteor shower or air burst over Qingyang in Ming dynasty China, said to have caused casualties.
  • July 4 – Battle of Bonefield: John Corvinus is defeated by the Kingdom of Hungary.
  • July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje (modern-day southwestern Slovenia).
  • July 22 – Ashikaga Yoshitane becomes 10th Muromachi shōgun of Japan.
  • November 20 – The first edition of the chivalric romance Tirant lo Blanch, by Joanot Martorell, is printed in Valencia.
  • December 19 – Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.[1]

Date unknown

  • Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Henry VII of England, at the court of Burgundy.
  • Traditional date of the Battle of Glendale (Skye) between the Scottish clans MacDonald and MacLeod.
  • Catholic missionaries arrive in the African Kingdom of Kongo.
  • Pêro da Covilhã arrives in Ethiopia.
  • 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 is enclosed in a glass tube, placed inside a water-filled glass globe.
  • All Saints' Church, the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg, is begun.
  • Tirant lo Blanch, by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba, is published.
  • Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
  • John Colet receives his M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
  • Johann Reuchlin meets Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
  • Merchants carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca (approximate date).
  • Battle of Chocontá: The northern (zaque) tribes of the pre-Columbian Muisca Confederation (central Colombia) are beaten by the southern (zipa) tribes.


Births

  • February 14 – Valentin Friedland, German scholar and educator of the Reformation (d. 1556)
  • February 17 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, French military leader (d. 1527)
  • March 6 – Fridolin Sicher, Swiss composer (d. 1546)
  • March 22 – Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian noble (d. 1538)
  • March 24 – Giovanni Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1553)
  • April – Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (d. 1547)
  • April 4 – Vojtěch I of Pernstein, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1534)
  • May 17 – Albert, Duke of Prussia, last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1568)
  • June 28 – Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (d. 1545)
  • July 25 – Amalie of the Palatinate, Duchess consort of Pomerania (d. 1524)
  • August 5 – Andrey of Staritsa, son of Ivan III "the Great" of Russia (d. 1537)
  • September 23 – Johann Heß, German theologian (d. 1547)
  • October – Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (d. 1557)
  • October 12 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548)[2]
  • November 10 – John III, Duke of Cleves (d. 1539)
  • December 25 – Francesco Marinoni, Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1562)
  • December 26 – Friedrich Myconius, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1546)
  • December 30 – Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman Grand Mufti (d. 1574)
  • approx. date – Properzia de' Rossi, Italian Renaissance sculptor (d. 1530)
  • date unknown
    • Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, Scottish noble (d. 1556)
    • Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1566)
    • Bars Bolud Jinong, Mongol Khagan (d. 1531)
    • Argula von Grumbach, German Protestant reformer (d. 1564)
    • Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (d. 1557)
    • Caspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian (d. 1561)
    • Anna Bielke, Swedish noble and commander (d. 1525)
    • David Reubeni, Jewish political activist and mystic (d. 1541)
  • probable
    • Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (d. 1523)
    • Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish painter (d. 1551)
    • Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1567)[3]
    • María de Toledo, Vicereine and regent of the Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo (d. 1549)
    • John Taverner, English composer and organist (d. 1545)
    • María de Salinas, Lady Willoughby, Spanish lady-in-waiting and friend to Catherine of Aragon
    • Quilago, queen regnant of the Cochasquí in Ecuador (d. 1515)

Deaths

King Matthias Corvinus
Blessed Joanna
  • January 27 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1435)
  • March 6 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
  • April 6 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)[4]
  • May 12 – Joanna, Portuguese Roman Catholic blessed and regent (b. 1452)
  • May 22 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (b. 1416)
  • August 11 – Frans van Brederode, Dutch rebel leader (b. 1465)
  • date unknown

References

  1. ^ Wellman, Kathleen (2013). Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press. p. 70. ISBN 9780300178852.
  2. ^ International Musicological Society. Congress (1970). Report. Bärenreiter. p. 97.
  3. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rich, Richard Rich, 1st Baron" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 293. RICH, RICHARD, 1st Baron Rich (1490?–1567), lord chancellor, was born of a Hampshire family about 1490
  4. ^ Hungarian Book Review. Hungarian Publishers' and Booksellers' Association. 1990. p. 2.