1484

This article is about the year 1484.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1450s  1460s  1470s  – 1480s –  1490s  1500s  1510s
Years:	1481 1482 1483 – 1484 – 1485 1486 1487

1484 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
1484 in poetry

1484 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1484 MCDLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2237
Armenian calendar	933 ԹՎ ՋԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	6234
Bahá'í calendar	-360–-359
Bengali calendar	891
Berber calendar	2434
English Regnal year	1 Ric. 3 – 2 Ric. 3
Buddhist calendar	2028
Burmese calendar	846
Byzantine calendar	6992–6993
Chinese calendar	癸卯年十二月初三日 (4120/4180-12-3) — to — 甲辰年十二月十四日 (4121/4181-12-14)
Coptic calendar	1200–1201
Ethiopian calendar	1476–1477
Hebrew calendar	5244–5245
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1540–1541
- Shaka Samvat	1406–1407
- Kali Yuga	4585–4586
Holocene calendar	11484
Iranian calendar	862–863
Islamic calendar	888–889
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 16 (文明16年)
Korean calendar	3817
Minguo calendar	428 before ROC 民前428年
Thai solar calendar	2027

Year 1484 (MCDLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• March 26 – William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
• May 14 – Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable) is crowned.
• July 6 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River, Walvis Bay, south of Namibia.
• July 22 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas is defeated by forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
• August 29 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV as the 213th pope.
• December 5 – Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany, led by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.

Date unknown

• The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria.
• The first cuirassier units (kyrissers) are formed in Austria.
• The King of Portugal appoints a commission of mathematicians to perfect tables to help seamen find their latitude.
• Maximilian I, Duke of Burgundy, orders foreign merchants to leave Brugge. Most merchants move to Antwerp, greatly contributing to its growth as international trading centrum.
• The Imperial Army of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated by the Hungarians in the Battle of Leitzersdorf.

Births

• January 1 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1531)
• January 17 – George Spalatin, German religious reformer (d. 1545)
• February 21 – Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535)
• March 4 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1543)
• April 12 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
• April 23 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (d. 1558)
• August 24 – Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (d. 1566)
• November 29 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (d. 1551)
• November 7 – Jón Arason, The last Icelandic Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
• date unknown – Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (d. 1531)

Deaths

• March 4 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
• April 9 – Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. c. 1473)
• July 11 – Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1429)
• August 12
  • Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
  • George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
• October 2 – Isabel of Cambridge, Countess of Essex, descendant of Edward III of England
• December – Premislav of Tost, Silesian ruler (b. 1425)
• date unknown
  • William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (b. 1410)
  • Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (b. 1432)