1490: Difference between revisions

1490 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1490; MCDXC
Ab urbe condita	2243
Armenian calendar	939; ԹՎ ՋԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	6240
Balinese saka calendar	1411–1412
Bengali calendar	897
Berber calendar	2440
English Regnal year	5 Hen. 7 – 6 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2034
Burmese calendar	852
Byzantine calendar	6998–6999
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster); 4187 or 3980; — to —; 庚戌年 (Metal Dog); 4188 or 3981
Coptic calendar	1206–1207
Discordian calendar	2656
Ethiopian calendar	1482–1483
Hebrew calendar	5250–5251
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1546–1547
- Shaka Samvat	1411–1412
- Kali Yuga	4590–4591
Holocene calendar	11490
Igbo calendar	490–491
Iranian calendar	868–869
Islamic calendar	895–896
Japanese calendar	Entoku 2; (延徳２年)
Javanese calendar	1406–1408
Julian calendar	1490; MCDXC
Korean calendar	3823
Minguo calendar	422 before ROC; 民前422年
Nanakshahi calendar	22
Thai solar calendar	2032–2033
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年; (female Earth-Rooster); 1616 or 1235 or 463; — to —; 阳金狗年; (male Iron-Dog); 1617 or 1236 or 464

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century; 15th century ; 16th century;
Decades:	1470s; 1480s; 1490s ; 1500s; 1510s;
Years:	1487; 1488; 1489; 1490 ; 1491; 1492; 1493;

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January 4 : Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered as guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.
December 19 – Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan De Galba is published.
Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan.
Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
John Colet receives his M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
The Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun.
Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia.
Catholic missionaries arrive in the African kingdom of Kongo.
Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany.
Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action in small-bore tubes.
Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp: the flame is enclosed in a glass tube placed inside a water-filled glass globe.

The Chinese scholar and printer Hua Sui invents bronze-metal movable type printing in China, although the earlier Wang Zhen had experimented with tin movable type in 1298 and the Koreans had separately innovated bronze movable type.
Merchants carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca, Arabia (approximate date).

February 17 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527)
March 24 – Georg Agricola, German scholar and scientist (d. 1555)
April – Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (d. 1547)
May 16 – Duke Albert of Prussia (d. 1568)
June 28 – Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (d. 1545)
October – Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (d. 1557)
October 12 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548)
November 10 – John III, Duke of Cleves (d. 1539)
date unknown
- Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (d. 1556)
- Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1566)
- Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (d. 1557)
- Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, German theologian (d. 1561)
probable
- Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (d. 1523)
- Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (d. 1551)
- Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1567)
- John Taverner, English composer and organist (d. 1545)
- Maria De Salinas, Lady Willoughby Spanish Lady in Waiting and friend To Queen Catherine of Aragon

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 **[[Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig]], German theologian (d. [[1561]])
 *''probable''
+**[[Wijerd Jelckama]], Frisian rebel and warlord (d. [[1523]])
 **[[Adriaen Isenbrant]], Flemish painter (d. [[1551]])
 **[[Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich]], Lord Chancellor of England (d. [[1567]])