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== Events == <onlyinclude> === January–December === * [[March 14]] – The Queen of [[Cyprus]], [[Catherine Cornaro]], sells her kingdom to the [[Republic of Venice]]. * [[March 26]] – The [[Treaty of Medina del Campo (1489)|Treaty of Medina del Campo]] between [[Kingdom of England|England]] and Spain includes provision for a marriage between [[Arthur, Prince of Wales|Arthur]], the son of King [[Henry VII of England]], and Infanta [[Catherine of Aragon]]. *[[June 29]] – [[James IV of Scotland|King James IV]] grants Andrew, Lord Gray, the lands and [[Barony of Lundie]] in Scotland.<ref>Registrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum - The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland II, Entry 1860.</ref> * [[July 17]] – [[Delhi Sultanate]]: [[Sikandar Lodi]] succeeds [[Bahlul Khan Lodi]] as sultan. * [[November 29]] – [[Arthur, Prince of Wales|Arthur Tudor]] is named [[Prince of Wales]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Patrick W. Montague-Smith|title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXE-AQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Debrett's Peerage Limited|page=141}}</ref> * [[December 11]] – Jeannetto de Tassis is appointed Chief Master of Postal Services in [[Innsbruck]]; his descendants, the [[Thurn und Taxis]] Family, later run much of the [[postal system]] of Europe. === Date unknown === * [[Typhus]] first appears in Europe, during the [[Granada War#Siege of Baza|Siege of Baza]] in the Granada War. * A [[gold coin]] equal to one [[pound sterling]], called a ''[[Sovereign (English coin)|sovereign]]'', is issued for [[Henry VII of England]]. * King [[Henry VII of England]] gives a town charter to the port of [[Southwold]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=Laurence |title=Suffolk Coast and Heath Walks: 3 long-distance routes in the AONB: the Suffolk Coast Path, the Stour and Orwell Walk and the Sandlings Walk |date=February 28, 2017 |publisher=Cicerone Press Limited |isbn=978-1-78362-457-7 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_G3-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA43 |language=en}}</ref> * [[Lucas Watzenrode]] becomes [[bishop]] of [[Warmia]]. * [[Johannes Widmann]] publishes his mercantile arithmetic {{Lang|de|Behende und hüpsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft}} in [[Leipzig]], containing the first printed use of [[plus and minus signs]], to indicate trading surpluses or shortages.</onlyinclude>
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