1490

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

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

Year 1490 (MCDXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 4 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France, will be considered as guilty of the crime of Lèse-majesté.
• March 13 – Charles II becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
• March or April – 1490 Ch'ing-yang event, a presumed meteor shower or air burst over Qingyang in Ming dynasty China, said to have caused casualties.
• July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje (modern-day southwestern Slovenia).
• November 20 – First edition of the chivalric romance Tirant lo Blanch by Joanot Martorell printed in Valencia.
• December 19 – Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.

Date unknown

• Ashikaga Yoshitane becomes shōgun of Japan.
• Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Edward IV of England, at the court of Burgundy.
• Traditional date of the Battle of Glendale (Skye) between the Scottish clans MacDonald and MacLeod.
• Catholic missionaries arrive in the African Kingdom of Kongo.
• Pêro da Covilhã arrives in Ethiopia.
• 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.
• All Saints' Church, the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg, is begun.
• 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.
• Tirant lo Blanch, by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba, is published.
• Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
• John Colet receives his M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
• Johann Reuchlin meets Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
• Merchants carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca (approximate date).

• Battle of Chocontá: The northern (zaque) tribes of the pre-Columbian Muisca Confederation (central Colombia) are beaten by the southern (zipa) tribes.

Births

• February 14 – Valentin Friedland, German scholar and educator of the Reformation (d. 1556)
• February 17 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, French military leader (d. 1527)
• March 6 – Fridolin Sicher, Swiss composer (d. 1546)
• March 22 – Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian noble (d. 1538)
• March 24 – Giovanni Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1553)
• April – Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (d. 1547)
• April 4 – Vojtěch I of Pernstein, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1534)
• May 17 – Albert, Duke of Prussia, last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1568)
• June 28 – Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (d. 1545)
• July 25 – Amalie of the Palatinate, Duchess consort of Pomerania (d. 1524)
• August 5 – Andrey of Staritsa, son of Ivan III "the Great" of Russia (d. 1537)
• September 23 – Johann Heß, German theologian (d. 1547)
• 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)
• December 25 – Francesco Marinoni, Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1562)
• December 26 – Friedrich Myconius, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1546)
• December 30 – Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman Grand Mufti (d. 1574)
• approx. date – Properzia de' Rossi, Italian Renaissance sculptor (d. 1530)
• date unknown
  • Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, Scottish noble (d. 1556)
  • Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1566)
  • Bars Bolud Jinong, Mongol Khagan (d. 1531)
  • Argula von Grumbach, German Protestant reformer (d. 1564)
  • Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (d. 1557)
  • Caspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian (d. 1561)
  • Anna Bielke, Swedish noble and commander (d. 1525)
  • David Reubeni, Jewish political activist and mystic (d. 1541)
• probable
  • Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (d. 1523)
  • Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish painter (d. 1551)
  • Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1567)
  • María de Toledo, Vicereine and regent of the Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo (d. 1549)
  • John Taverner, English composer and organist (d. 1545)
  • María de Salinas, Lady Willoughby, Spanish lady-in-waiting and friend to Catherine of Aragon
  • Quilago, queen regnant of the Cochasquí in Ecuador (d. 1515)

Deaths

King Matthias Corvinus

Blessed Joanna

• January 27 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1435)
• March 6 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
• March 13 – Charles I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1468)
• April 6 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)
• May 12 – Joanna, Portuguese Roman Catholic blessed and regent (b. 1452)
• May 22 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (b. 1416)
• August 11 – Frans van Brederode, Dutch rebel leader (b. 1465)
• date unknown
  • Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist
  • Aonghas Óg, last independent Lord of the Isles