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

[edit] Events of 1484

• March 26 - William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
• July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River.
• 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.
• September 15 - Peter Arbues is assaulted while praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain; he dies on September 17. He had been appointed Inquisitor of Aragon by the Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in the campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.
• December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany, led by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.
• 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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 Plantagenet, 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)