1479

This article is about the year 1479.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1440s  1450s  1460s  – 1470s –  1480s  1490s  1500s
Years:	1476 1477 1478 – 1479 – 1480 1481 1482

1479 by topic
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
1479 in poetry

1479 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1479 MCDLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2232
Armenian calendar	928 ԹՎ ՋԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	6229
Bengali calendar	886
Berber calendar	2429
English Regnal year	18 Edw. 4 – 19 Edw. 4
Buddhist calendar	2023
Burmese calendar	841
Byzantine calendar	6987–6988
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4175 or 4115     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4176 or 4116
Coptic calendar	1195–1196
Discordian calendar	2645
Ethiopian calendar	1471–1472
Hebrew calendar	5239–5240
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1535–1536
- Shaka Samvat	1401–1402
- Kali Yuga	4580–4581
Holocene calendar	11479
Igbo calendar	479–480
Iranian calendar	857–858
Islamic calendar	883–884
Japanese calendar	Bunmei 11 (文明１１年)
Julian calendar	1479 MCDLXXIX
Korean calendar	3812
Minguo calendar	433 before ROC 民前433年
Thai solar calendar	2021–2022

Year 1479 (MCDLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

Events

January–December

• January 20 – Ferdinand II ascends the throne of Aragon and rules together with his wife Isabella I, Queen of Castile over most of the Iberian peninsula.
• January 25 – Treaty of Constantinople between the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Venice according to which Venice will cede Argo, Negroponte, Lemnos and Shkodër, and pay an annual tribute of 10,000 golden ducati.
• April 25 – Ratification of the Treaty of Constantinople in Venice ends the Siege of Shkodra after fifteen months and brings all of Albania under the Ottoman Empire.
• May 13 – Christopher Columbus, an experienced mariner and successful trader in the thriving Genoese expatriate community in Portugal, marries Felipa Perestrelo Moniz (Italian on her father's side) and receives as dowry her late father's maps and papers charting the seas and winds around the Madeira Islands and other Portuguese possessions in the Ocean Sea.
• August 7 – Battle of Guinegate: A French army sent to invade the Netherlands is defeated by Maximilian of Austria.
• September 4 – The Treaty of Alcáçovas (also known as the Treaty or Peace of Alcáçovas-Toledo) is signed between the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and the King of Portugal and his son on the other side, ending the four-year War of the Castilian Succession.
• October 13 – Battle of Breadfield (Hungarian: Kenyérmezei csata, Turkish: Ekmek Otlak Savaşı): The army of the Kingdom of Hungary, led by Pál Kinizsi and István Báthori, defeats that of the Ottoman Empire in Transylvania, Hungary, leaving at least 10,000 Turkish dead.

Ongoing

• The plague is in Florence.
• Johann Neumeister prints a new edition of Juan de Torquemada's Meditations, or the Contemplations of the Most Devout.

Births

• March 25 – Vasili III of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
• May 5 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
• June 14 – Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
• June 15 – Lisa del Giocondo, believed to be the subject of the Mona Lisa (d. 1542)
• August 14 – Catherine of York Aunt of Henry VIII (d. 1527)
• November 6 – Joanna of Castile, Queen of Philip I of Castile, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1555)
• date unknown
  • Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (d. 1552)
  • Vallabhacharya, founder of the Vallabha sect of Hinduism (d. 1531)
• probable – Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1522)

Deaths

• January 18 – Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1417)
• January 20 – King John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
• February – Antonello da Messina, Italian painter (b. c. 1430)
• April 24 – Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (b. 1440)
• June 11 – John of Sahagun, hermit and saint (b. 1419)
• September 10 – Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati, cardinal (b. 1422)
• November 6 – James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton