1480
Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th centuryDecades: 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s 1550s 1560s
Years: 1475 1476 1477 1478 1479 - 1480 - 1481 1482 1483 1484 1485
Events
- Ivan III becomes Tsar of the Russians
- Moscow becomes independent from the Empire of the Golden Horde of the Mongols.
- Ludovico Sforza becomes Regent of Milan (reigns until 1499)
- Concorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castileinitiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics in converted Jews)
- Leonardo da Vinci invents the parachute
- Mohamed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes
- April 14/ April 18 - Lucrezia Borgia, illegitimate daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the later Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519).
- Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator (d. 1521)
- Georg Faust, originator of Faust legend
- Palma Vecchio, Italian painter (d. 1528)
- Diego ColÃÂón, Portugal, baptized Diogo Colom, first and only child of Christopher Columbus's marriage to Filipe Perestrelo Moniz. Despite leading a dramatic life of his own, he is best remembered as the motherless four-year-old who made Columbus a "single dad." The mariner arriving in Palos, Spain, in early 1485 with a small son in tow has long been a favorite theme for painters and sculpters. (d. 1526)