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| 1490 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1490 MCDXC |
| Ab urbe condita | 2243 |
| Armenian calendar | 939 ԹՎ ՋԼԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6240 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1411–1412 |
| Bengali calendar | 897 |
| Berber calendar | 2440 |
| English Regnal year | 5 Hen. 7 – 6 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2034 |
| Burmese calendar | 852 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6998–6999 |
| Chinese calendar | 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4187 or 3980 — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4188 or 3981 |
| Coptic calendar | 1206–1207 |
| Discordian calendar | 2656 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1482–1483 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5250–5251 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1546–1547 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1411–1412 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4590–4591 |
| Holocene calendar | 11490 |
| Igbo calendar | 490–491 |
| Iranian calendar | 868–869 |
| Islamic calendar | 895–896 |
| Japanese calendar | Entoku 2 (延徳２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1406–1408 |
| Julian calendar | 1490 MCDXC |
| Korean calendar | 3823 |
| Minguo calendar | 422 before ROC 民前422年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 22 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2032–2033 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1616 or 1235 or 463 — to — 阳金狗年 (male Iron-Dog) 1617 or 1236 or 464 |
Year 1490 (MCDXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]January–December
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
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- 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
- Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist
- Aonghas Óg, last independent Lord of the Isles
References
[edit]- ^ Wellman, Kathleen (2013). Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press. p. 70. ISBN 9780300178852.
- ^ International Musicological Society. Congress (1970). Report. Bärenreiter. p. 97.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . 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
- ^ Hungarian Book Review. Hungarian Publishers' and Booksellers' Association. 1990. p. 2.