1479

This article is about the year 1479.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s  1450s  1460s  – 1470s –  1480s  1490s  1500s
Years:	1476 1477 1478 – 1479 – 1480 1481 1482

1479 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1479 in poetry

1479 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1479 MCDLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2232
Armenian calendar	928 ԹՎ ՋԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	6229
Bahá'í calendar	-365–-364
Bengali calendar	886
Berber calendar	2429
English Regnal year	18 Edw. 4 – 19 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2023
Burmese calendar	841
Byzantine calendar	6987–6988
Chinese calendar	戊戌年十二月初九日 (4115/4175-12-9) — to — 己亥年十一月十九日 (4116/4176-11-19)
Coptic calendar	1195–1196
Ethiopian calendar	1471–1472
Hebrew calendar	5239–5240
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1535–1536
- Shaka Samvat	1401–1402
- Kali Yuga	4580–4581
Holocene calendar	11479
Iranian calendar	857–858
Islamic calendar	883–884
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 11 (文明11年)
Julian calendar	1479    MCDLXXIX
Korean calendar	3812
Minguo calendar	433 before ROC 民前433年
Thai solar calendar	2022

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 – Treaty of Istanbul between the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Venice according to which Venice will cede Argo, Negroponte, Lemnos and Shkodër, and pay an annual tribute of 10,000 golden ducati. The surrender of Shkodër, after a fifteen-month siege, 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 Treaty or Peace of Alcáçovas-Toledo) is signed between the Catholic monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and the King of Portugal on the other side, ending the four-year War of the Castilian Succession.
• October 13 – Battle of Kenyérmező (Turkish: Ekmekotlak): The Hungarian army, led by Pál Kinizsi and István Báthori, defeats the Ottoman army in Transylvania, Hungary.

Ongoing

• Plague in Florence.

Births

• March 25 – Vasili III of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
• May 5 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
• June 14 – Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
• June 15 – Lisa del Giocondo, believed to be the subject of the Mona Lisa (d. 1542)
• August 14 – Catherine of York Aunt of Henry VIII (d. 1527)
• November 6 – Joanna of Castile, Queen of Philip I of Castile, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1555)
• date unknown
  • Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (d. 1552)
  • Vallabhacharya, 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)
• June 11 – John of Sahagun, hermit and saint (b. 1419)
• September 10 – Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati, cardinal (b. 1422)
• date unknown
  • James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton
  • Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (b. 1440)