1486
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This article is about the year 1486.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1450s 1460s 1470s – 1480s – 1490s 1500s 1510s |
| Years: | 1483 1484 1485 – 1486 – 1487 1488 1489 |
| 1486 by topic |
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| 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 |
| 1486 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1486 MCDLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2239 |
| Armenian calendar | 935 ԹՎ ՋԼԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6236 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -358–-357 |
| Bengali calendar | 893 |
| Berber calendar | 2436 |
| English Regnal year | 1 Hen. 7 – 2 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2030 |
| Burmese calendar | 848 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6994–6995 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十一月廿六日 (4122/4182-11-26) — to —
丙午年十二月初六日(4123/4183-12-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 1202–1203 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1478–1479 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5246–5247 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1542–1543 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1408–1409 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4587–4588 |
| Holocene calendar | 11486 |
| Iranian calendar | 864–865 |
| Islamic calendar | 890–891 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 18 (文明18年) |
| Korean calendar | 3819 |
| Minguo calendar | 426 before ROC 民前426年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2029 |
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Year 1486 (MCDLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- January 18 – King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York are married, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York after the Wars of the Roses.
- February 16 – Archduke Maximilian I of Habsburg is elected King of the Romans at Frankfurt (crowned April 9 at Aachen).
[edit] Date unknown
- Tízoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies. Some sources suggest that he was poisoned, others that he was the victim of "sorcery" or illness. He is succeeded by his brother Auitzotl.
- Sigismund, Archduke of Tyrol, issues Europe's first large silver coin, the guldengroschen, which will later become the thaler.
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola returns to Florence and writes Oration on the Dignity of Man.
- The Medici giraffe arrives in Florence.
- Johann Reuchlin begins studying the Hebrew language.
[edit] Births
- January 6 – Martin Agricola, German composer and music theorist (d. 1556)
- July 2 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1570)
- August 23 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
- September 14 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German astrologer and alchemist (d. 1535)
- September 20 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
- date unknown – Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Indian ascetic and monk (d. 1534)
- probable
- Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll (d. 1535)
- Ludwig Senfl, Swiss composer (d. 1542 or 1543)
[edit] Deaths
- March 11 – Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1414)
- March 30 – Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1404)
- May 11 – William Waynflete, English Lord Chancellor and bishop of Winchester (b. 1395)
- July 14 – Margaret of Denmark, daughter of Christian I of Denmark (b. 1456)
- August 26 – Ernest, Elector of Saxony, progenitor of the Ernestine Wettins (b. 1441)
- September 19 – Richard Oldham, English Bishop
- date unknown – Tízoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (perhaps poisoned)
- probable – Aristotile Fioravanti, Italian architect and engineer (b. 1415)
