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Calendar year
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 – The
Treaty of Constantinople is signed between the
Ottoman Empire and
Republic of Venice , ending
sixteen years of war between the two powers; Venice will cede
Negroponte ,
Lemnos and
Shkodër , and pay an annual sum of 10,000 gold
ducats .
[1]
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 Báthory , defeats that of the
Ottoman Empire in
Transylvania ,
Hungary , leaving at least 10,000 Turkish dead.
Ongoing
Births
March 12 –
Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (d.
1516 )
March 13 –
Lazarus Spengler , German hymnwriter (d.
1534 )
March 20 –
Ippolito d'Este , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.
1520 )
March 25 –
Vasili III of Russia , Grand Prince of Moscow (d.
1533 )
May 3 –
Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (d.
1552 )
May 5 –
Guru Amar Das , third
Sikh Guru (d.
1574 )
May 12 –
Pompeo Colonna , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.
1532 )
June 14 –
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi , Italian scholar and poet (d.
1552 )
June 15 –
Lisa del Giocondo , Florentine noblewoman believed to be the subject of the
Mona Lisa (d.
1542 )
August 14 –
Catherine of York , English princess, aunt of
Henry VIII (d.
1527 )
[4]
September 17 –
Celio Calcagnini , Italian astronomer (d.
1541 )
October 28 –
John Gage , English courtier of the Tudor period (d.
1556 )
November 6
December –
Ayşe Hafsa Sultan , Ottoman Valide Sultan (d.
1534 )
date unknown
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 )
February 10 –
Catherine of Cleves , duchess consort regent of Guelders (b.
1417 )
February 12 –
Eleanor of Navarre , queen regnant of Navarre (b.
1426 )
April 24 –
Jorge Manrique , Spanish poet (b.
1440 )
June 11 –
John of Sahagún , Spanish Augustinian friar, priest and saint (b.
1419 )
September 10 –
Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.
1422 )
September 18 –
Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin , English baron (b.
1445 )
November 6 –
James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton
date unknown
References
^
Setton, Kenneth M. (1978).
The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), Volume II: The Fifteenth Century . Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. p. 328.
ISBN
0-87169-127-2 .
^ Brown, Alison (1979). Bartolomeo Scala, 1430-1497, Chancellor of Florence : the humanist as bureaucrat . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 87.
ISBN
978-1-4008-6753-0 .
OCLC
767801631 .
^
"Meditations, or the Contemplations of the Most Devout" .
World Digital Library . 1479. Retrieved September 4, 2013 .
^ Panton, James (February 24, 2011).
Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy . Scarecrow Press. p. 92.
ISBN
978-0-8108-7497-8 .