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Year '''1488''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDLXXXVIII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==

=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 8]] &ndash; The [[Royal Netherlands Navy]] is formed, by the decree of [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximillian of Austria]].
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Bartolomeu Dias]] of Portugal lands in [[Mossel Bay]], after rounding the [[Cape of Good Hope]] at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south, and entering the [[Indian Ocean]]. 
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Choe Bu]] (1454&ndash;1504), the Korean Commissioner of Registers for the island of [[Jeju Island|Cheju]], shipwrecks on the south east coast of China in [[Taizhou, Zhejiang]].
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Battle of Sauchieburn]]: [[James IV of Scotland]] becomes king after his father is killed in action.<ref name=James>{{cite book|author1=Richard Oram|author2=Richard D. Oram|author3=Geoffrey Stell|title=Lordship and Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-LVAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=John Donald|isbn=978-0-85976-628-9|page=147}}</ref>
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Joseon Dynasty]] official [[Choe Bu]] returns to Korea, after months of shipwrecked travel in China.<ref>[[Timothy Brook (historian)|Brook, Timothy]]. (1998). ''[[The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China]]''. Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|0-520-22154-0}} (Paperback), p. 51.</ref>
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier (1488)|Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier]]: Troops loyal to King [[Charles VIII of France]] defeat rebel forces, led by the Dukes of [[Louis XII of France|Orleans]] and [[Francis II of Brittany|Brittany]], in the main engagement of the [[Mad War]].<ref name="LoweSeymour-Davies2000">{{cite book|author1=Alfonso Lowe|author2=Hugh Seymour-Davies|title=The Companion Guide to the South of Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vy_v0vWgkzsC&pg=PA242|year=2000|publisher=Companion Guides|isbn=978-1-900639-33-0|pages=242}}</ref>
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Anne of Brittany]] becomes [[Duchess of Brittany]] at the age of 11. Her marriage to King Charles VIII in [[1491]] effectively ends Breton independence from France.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford]], takes possession of [[Cardiff Castle]].
* [[Michelangelo Buonarroti]] becomes [[apprentice]] to [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]].
* The city of [[Bikaner]] in western India is founded by [[Rao Bika]].
* ''[[Rathbornes Candles]]'' is established in [[Dublin]]; the company is still trading in the 21st century.

== Births ==
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Helius Eobanus Hessus]], German Latin poet (d. [[1540]])
* [[January 20]]
** [[John George, Marquis of Montferrat]], Italian noble (d. [[1533]])
** [[Sebastian Münster]], German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (d. [[1552]])
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Johannes Magnus]], last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. [[1544]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Johannes|author2=Brita Larsson|title=Johannes Magnus' Latin Letters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ujnkAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Lund University Press|isbn=978-0-86238-304-6|page=9}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Jungjong of Joseon]] (d. [[1544]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Ulrich von Hutten]], German religious reformer (d. [[1523]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Sidonie of Bavaria]], eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich (d. [[1505]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Lê Uy Mục]], 8th king of the later Lê dynasty of Vietnam (d. [[1509]])
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[John III of the Palatinate]], Administrator of the Bishopric of Regensburg (d. [[1538]])
* June &ndash; [[Heinrich Glarean]], Swiss music theorist (d. [[1563]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Pedro Pacheco de Villena]], Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. [[1560]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Juan Álvarez de Toledo]], Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. [[1557]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Ursula of Brandenburg]], Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. [[1510]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria]] (d. [[1550]])
* ''date unknown''
** Rabbi [[Yosef Karo]], Spanish Jewish scholar (d. [[1575]])
** [[Oswald Myconius]], Swiss religious reformer (d. [[1552]])
** [[Jan Tarnowski]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1561]])
** [[Thomas of Villanova]], Spanish bishop (d. [[1555]])
** [[Gustav Trolle]], Archbishop of Uppsala (d. [[1533]])
** [[Elisabeth of Nassau-Siegen (1488–1559)|Elisabeth of Nassau-Siegen]], German noblewoman (d. [[1559]])
* ''probable''
** [[Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden]], Lord Chancellor of England (d. [[1544]])
** [[Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet]], French soldier (d. [[1525]])
** [[Myles Coverdale]], English Bible translator (d. [[1568]])
** [[Lütfi Pasha]], Ottoman statesman (d. [[1564]])

== Deaths ==
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[John II, Duke of Bourbon]] (b. [[1426]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Riario]], Lord of Imola and Forli (b. [[1443]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Frederick I of Liegnitz]], Duke of Chojnów and Strzelin from 1453 (b. [[1446]])
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Iizasa Ienao]], Japanese swordsman (b. c. [[1387]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; King [[James III of Scotland]] (at the [[Battle of Sauchieburn]]; b. c. [[1451]])<ref>{{cite web |title=King James III: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland |url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/monarchs/jamesiii.html |website=www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk |access-date=29 January 2021}}</ref>
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Alvise Cadamosto]], Italian explorer (b. [[1432]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Edward Woodville, Lord Scales]] (at the [[Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier (1488)|Battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier]]; b. c. [[1456]])<ref name="LoweSeymour-Davies2000"/>
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Clarice Orsini]], Florentine noblewoman and wife of [[Lorenzo de’ Medici]] (b. [[1453]])
*[[September]] &ndash; [[Abu 'Amr 'Uthman]],  [[Hafsid]] [[caliph]] of [[Ifriqiya]] (b. [[1419]])
*[[September]] &ndash; [[Lasse Huittinen]], Finnish thief
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Francis II, Duke of Brittany]] (fell from a horse) (b. [[1433]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Susan Groag Bell|title=The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies: Christine de Pizan's Renaissance Legacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mowDH_q96boC&pg=PA97|date=29 November 2004|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-92878-7|pages=97}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Charles II, Duke of Bourbon]] (b. [[1434]])
*[[October 11]] &ndash; [[Geoffroy Cœur]], French nobleman, son of [[Jacques Cœur]]
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Johannes Crabbe]], Flemish abbot and bibliophile 
* ''date unknown''
** [[Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran]] (b. [[1453]])
** [[Andrea del Verrocchio]], Italian sculptor (b. c. [[1435]])
** [[Borommatrailokkanat]], Ayutthaya king (b. [[1431]])

== References ==
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