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Year 1479 ( MCDLXXIX ) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar ).
Events
January – December
- January 20 – Ferdinand II ascends the throne of Aragon , and rules together with his wife Isabella I , Queen of Castile , over most of the Iberian peninsula .
- January 25 – The Treaty of Constantinople is signed between the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Venice ; Venice will cede Argo, Negroponte , Lemnos and Shkodër , and pay an annual tribute of 10,000 golden ducats .
- April 25 – Ratification of the Treaty of Constantinople in Venice ends the Siege of Shkodra after fifteen months, and brings all of Albania under the Ottoman Empire .
- May 13 – Christopher Columbus , an experienced mariner and successful trader in the thriving Genoese expatriate community in Portugal , marries Felipa Perestrelo Moniz (Italian on her father's side), and receives as dowry her late father's maps and papers, charting the seas and winds around the Madeira Islands , and other Portuguese possessions in the Ocean Sea .
- August 7 – Battle of Guinegate : A French army sent to invade the Netherlands is defeated by Maximilian of Austria .
- September 4 – The Treaty of Alcáçovas (also known as the Treaty or Peace of Alcáçovas-Toledo) is signed between the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side, and the King of Portugal and his son on the other side, ending the four-year War of the Castilian Succession .
- October 13 – Battle of Breadfield ( Hungarian : Kenyérmezei csata , Turkish : Ekmek Otlak Savaşı ): The army of the Kingdom of Hungary , led by Pál Kinizsi and István Báthory , defeats that of the Ottoman Empire in Transylvania , Hungary , leaving at least 10,000 Turkish dead.
Ongoing
- The plague breaks out in Florence . [1]
- Johann Neumeister prints a new edition of Juan de Torquemada 's Meditations, or the Contemplations of the Most Devout . [2]
Births
- March 12 – Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (d. 1516 )
- March 13 – Lazarus Spengler , German hymnwriter (d. 1534 )
- March 20 – Ippolito d'Este , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1520 )
- March 25 – Vasili III of Russia , Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533 )
- May 3 – Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1552 )
- May 5 – Guru Amar Das , third Sikh Guru (d. 1574 )
- May 12 – Pompeo Colonna , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532 )
- June 14 – Giglio Gregorio Giraldi , Italian scholar and poet (d. 1552 )
- June 15 – Lisa del Giocondo , Florentine noblewoman believed to be the subject of the Mona Lisa (d. 1542 )
- August 14 – Catherine of York , English princess, aunt of Henry VIII (d. 1527 ) [3]
- September 17 – Celio Calcagnini , Italian astronomer (d. 1541 )
- October 28 – John Gage , English courtier of the Tudor period (d. 1556 )
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November 6
- Joanna of Castile , Queen of Philip I of Castile , daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1555 )
- Philip I, Margrave of Baden (d. 1533 )
- December – Ayşe Hafsa Sultan , Ottoman Valide Sultan (d. 1534 )
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date unknown
- Johann Cochlaeus , German humanist and controversialist (d. 1552 )
- Vallabhacharya , Indian founder of the Vallabha sect of Hinduism (d. 1531 )
- probable – Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1522 )
Deaths
- January 18 – Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1417 )
- January 20 – King John II of Aragon (b. 1397 )
- February – Antonello da Messina , Italian painter (b. c. 1430 )
- February 10 – Catherine of Cleves , duchess consort regent of Guelders (b. 1417 )
- February 12 – Eleanor of Navarre , queen regnant of Navarre (b. 1426 )
- April 24 – Jorge Manrique , Spanish poet (b. 1440 )
- June 11 – John of Sahagún , Spanish Augustinian friar, priest and saint (b. 1419 )
- September 10 – Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati , Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1422 )
- September 18 – Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin , English baron (b. 1445 )
- November 6 – James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton
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date unknown
- Johanne Andersdatter Sappi , Danish noble (b. 1400 )
- Ólöf Loftsdóttir , politically active Icelandic woman (b. c. 1410 )
References
- ↑ Brown, Alison (1979). Bartolomeo Scala, 1430-1497, Chancellor of Florence : the humanist as bureaucrat . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-4008-6753-0 . OCLC 767801631 .
- ↑ "Meditations, or the Contemplations of the Most Devout" . World Digital Library . 1479 . Retrieved September 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Panton, James (February 24, 2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy . Scarecrow Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8 .