1488

This article is about the year 1488. For White nationalist slogans, see Fourteen Words.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s
Years:	1485 1486 1487 1488 1489 1490 1491

1488 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1488 MCDLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2241
Armenian calendar	937 ԹՎ ՋԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	6238
Balinese saka calendar	1409–1410
Bengali calendar	895
Berber calendar	2438
English Regnal year	3 Hen. 7 – 4 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2032
Burmese calendar	850
Byzantine calendar	6996–6997
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4185 or 3978     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4186 or 3979
Coptic calendar	1204–1205
Discordian calendar	2654
Ethiopian calendar	1480–1481
Hebrew calendar	5248–5249
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1544–1545
- Shaka Samvat	1409–1410
- Kali Yuga	4588–4589
Holocene calendar	11488
Igbo calendar	488–489
Iranian calendar	866–867
Islamic calendar	893–894
Japanese calendar	Chōkyō 2 (長享２年)
Javanese calendar	1404–1405
Julian calendar	1488 MCDLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3821
Minguo calendar	424 before ROC 民前424年
Nanakshahi calendar	20
Thai solar calendar	2030–2031
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1614 or 1233 or 461     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1615 or 1234 or 462

Year 1488 (MCDLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 8 – The Royal Netherlands Navy was formed, by the decree of Maximillian of Austria.
• February 3 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal landed in Mossel Bay, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south, and entering the Indian Ocean.
• February 28 – Choe Bu (1454–1504), the Korean Commissioner of Registers for the island of Cheju, shipwrecked on the south east coast of China in Taizhou, Zhejiang, during the Ming Dynasty. From then until July 12, he and his crew were hosted by Chinese military courier officers to travel along the Grand Canal of China, all the way to Beijing, and then finally back across the Yalu River into Korea. His written commentary on Chinese customs, foreign and domestic trade, and transport in places such as Hangzhou and Suzhou, are valuable records of Ming era culture and commerce.
• June 11 – Battle of Sauchieburn: James IV of Scotland became king.
• July 28 – Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier: Troops loyal to King Charles VIII of France defeated rebel forces led by the Dukes of Orleans and Brittany in the main engagement of the Mad War.
• September 9 – Anne of Brittany became Duchess of Brittany at the age of 11. Her marriage to King Charles VIII in 1491 effectively ended Breton independence from France.

Date unknown

• Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, took possession of Cardiff Castle.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti became apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio.
• The city of Bikaner in western India was founded by Rao Bika.
• Rathbornes Candles was established in Dublin; the company would still be trading into the 21st century.

Births

• January 6 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (d. 1540)
• January 20
  • John George, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian noble (d. 1533)
  • Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (d. 1552)
• March 19 – Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
• April 16 – Jungjong of Joseon (d. 1544)
• April 21 – Ulrich von Hutten, German religious reformer (d. 1523)
• May 1 – Sidonie of Bavaria, eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich (d. 1505)
• May 5 – Lê Uy Mục, 8th king of the later Lê dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1509)
• May 7 – John III of the Palatinate, Administrator of the Bishopric of Regensburg (d. 1538)
• June – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (d. 1563)
• June 29 – Pedro Pacheco de Villena, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1560)
• July 15 – Juan Álvarez de Toledo, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1557)
• October 17 – Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1510)
• December 1 – Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg, Countess of Wied, German noblewoman (d. 1559)
• December 15 – Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria (d. 1550)
• date unknown
  • Rabbi Yosef Karo, Spanish Jewish scholar (d. 1575)
  • Oswald Myconius, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1552)
  • Jan Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (d. 1561)
  • Thomas of Villanova, Spanish bishop (d. 1555)
  • Gustav Trolle, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1533)
• probable
  • Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1544)
  • Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (d. 1525)
  • Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (d. 1568)
  • Lütfi Pasha, Ottoman statesman (d. 1564)

Deaths

• April 1 – John II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1426)
• April 14 – Girolamo Riario, Lord of Imola and Forli (b. 1443)
• May 9 – Frederick I of Liegnitz, Duke of Chojnów and Strzelin from 1453 (b. 1446)
• June 11 – King James III of Scotland (b. c. 1451)
• July 18 – Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
• July 28 – Edward Woodville, Lord Scales (at the Battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier)
• September 9 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)
• September 13 – Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1434)
• date unknown
  • Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran (b. 1453)
  • Iizasa Ienao, Japanese swordsman (b. c. 1387)
  • Andrea del Verrocchio, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1435)