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* [[Perkin Warbeck]] claims to be the son of King [[Henry VII of England]], at the court of [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundy]].
* Traditional date of the [[Battle of Glendale (Skye)]] between the [[Scottish clan]]s [[Clan Donald|MacDonald]] and [[Clan MacLeod|MacLeod]].
* [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[missionaries]] arrive in the African [[Kingdom of Kongo]].
* [[Pêro da Covilhã]] arrives in [[Ethiopia]].
* 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.
* Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp: the flame is enclosed in a glass tube, placed inside a water-filled glass globe.
* [[All Saints' Church, Wittenberg|All Saints' Church, the ''Schlosskirche'']] in [[Wittenberg]], is begun.
* ''[[Tirant lo Blanch]]'', by [[Joanot Martorell]] and [[Martí Joan de Galba]], is published.
* [[Aldus Manutius]] moves to [[Venice]].
* [[John Colet]] receives his M.A. from [[Magdalen College, Oxford]].
* [[Johann Reuchlin]] meets [[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]].
* Merchants carry [[coffee]] from [[Yemen]] to [[Mecca]] ''(approximate date)''.
* [[Battle of Chocontá]]: The northern (''[[zaque]]'') tribes of the [[pre-Columbian era|pre-Columbian]] [[Muisca Confederation]] (central [[Colombia]]) are beaten by the southern (''[[zipa]]'') tribes.
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