1490

Years: 1487 1488 1489 - 1490 - 1491 1492 1493
Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s
Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

1490 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published.
Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan.
Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun.
Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia.
Catholic missionaries arrive in the African kingdom of Kongo.
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.
December 19 - Anne of Brittany married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy
Small asteroid kills thousands in China.

February 17 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (died 1527)
March 24 - Georg Agricola, German scholar and scientist (died 1555)
April - Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (died 1547)
May 16 - Duke Albert of Prussia (died 1568)
June 28 - Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (died 1545)
October - Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (died 1557)
October 12 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (died 1548)
November 10 - John III, Duke of Cleves (died 1539)
date unknown
- Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (died 1556)
- Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1566)
- Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (died 1557)
- Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, German theologian (died 1561)
probable
- Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (died 1551)
- Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (died 1567)
- John Taverner, English composer and organist (died 1545)

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