1479
Calendar year
Year 1479 (MCDLXXIX common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events
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 , ending sixteen years of war between the two powers; Venice will cede Negroponte , Lemnos and Shkodër , and pay an annual sum of 10,000 gold ducats .[ 1] 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
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 1542 )August 14 – Catherine of York , English princess, aunt of Henry VIII (d. 1527 )[ 4] September 17 – Celio Calcagnini , Italian astronomer (d. 1541 )October 28 – John Gage , English courtier of the Tudor period (d. 1556 )November 6
December – Ayşe Hafsa Sultan , Ottoman Valide Sultan (d. 1534 )
date unknown
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 date unknown
References
^ Setton, Kenneth M. (1978). The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), Volume II: The Fifteenth Century ISBN 0-87169-127-2 ^ 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 . Retrieved September 4, 2013 .^ Panton, James (February 24, 2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8
