1480

	1480 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1450s 1460s 1470s – 1480s – 1490s 1500s 1510s
Years:	1477 1478 1479 – 1480 – 1481 1482 1483

Year 1480 (MCDLXXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1480

March 6 – Treaty of Toledo: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso of Portugal, and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain.
July 28 – Mohamed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes.
July 28 – An Ottoman army lands near Otranto, Italy. Pope Sixtus IV calls for a crusade to drive it away.
October – Great stand on the Ugra river: Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde.
Lighthouse of Alexandria's final remains disappeared.
Ludovico Sforza becomes Regent of Milan (reigns until 1499).
Consorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics in converted Jews).
Theotokos of Vladimir is moved to Moscow.

April 14 – Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (b. c. 1415)
May 19 – Jan Długosz, Polish historian (b. 1415)
June 6 – Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (b. c. 1410)
July 6 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
July 10 – King René I of Naples (b. 1409)
September 1 – Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (b. 1413)
December 14 – Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (b. 1429)
date unknown
- Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (b. 1420)
- Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer (b. c. 1395)
- Antonio Vivarini, Italian painter (b. c. 1440)