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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{About year|1490}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2019}} {{Year nav|1490}} {{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1490''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDXC]]''') was a [[common year starting on Friday]] of the [[Julian calendar]]. == Events == <onlyinclude> === January–December === * [[January 4]] – [[Anne of Brittany]] announces that all those who ally themselves with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of [[Lèse-majesté]]. * [[March 13]] – [[Charles II, Duke of Savoy|Charles II]] becomes [[Duke of Savoy]] at age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent. * [[March]] or [[April]] – [[1490 Qingyang event]], a presumed [[meteor shower]] or [[List of meteor air bursts|air burst]] over [[Qingyang, Gansu|Qingyang]] in [[Ming dynasty]] China, said to have caused casualties. * [[July 4]] – [[Battle of Bonefield]]: [[John Corvinus]] is defeated by the Kingdom of Hungary. * [[July 13]] – [[John of Kastav]] finishes a cycle of frescoes in the [[Holy Trinity Church (Hrastovlje)|Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje]] (modern-day southwestern Slovenia). * [[July 22]] – [[Ashikaga Yoshitane]] becomes 10th [[Ashikaga shogunate|Muromachi shōgun]] of [[Japan]]. * [[November 20]] – The first edition of the chivalric romance ''[[Tirant lo Blanch]]'', by [[Joanot Martorell]], is printed in [[Valencia]]. * [[December 19]] – Anne of Brittany is married to [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] by proxy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wellman |first1=Kathleen |title=Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France |date=2013 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300178852 |page=70 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AtUPUB6znMC&pg=PA70|language=en}}</ref> === Date unknown === * [[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. </onlyinclude> == Births == * [[February 14]] – [[Valentin Friedland]], German scholar and educator of the Reformation (d. [[1556]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Charles III, Duke of Bourbon]], French military leader (d. [[1527]]) * [[March 6]] – [[Fridolin Sicher]], Swiss composer (d. [[1546]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino]], Italian noble (d. [[1538]]) * [[March 24]] – [[Giovanni Salviati]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1553]]) * [[April]] – [[Vittoria Colonna]], Italian poet (d. [[1547]]) * [[April 4]] – [[Vojtěch I of Pernstein]], Bohemian nobleman (d. [[1534]]) * [[May 17]] – [[Albert, Duke of Prussia]], last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. [[1568]]) * [[June 28]] – [[Albert of Mainz]], German elector and archbishop (d. [[1545]]) * [[July 25]] – [[Amalie of the Palatinate]], Duchess consort of Pomerania (d. [[1524]]) * [[August 5]] – [[Andrey of Staritsa]], son of Ivan III "the Great" of Russia (d. [[1537]]) * [[September 23]] – [[Johann Heß]], German theologian (d. [[1547]]) * [[October]] – [[Olaus Magnus]], Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (d. [[1557]]) * [[October 12]] – [[Bernardo Pisano]], Italian composer (d. [[1548]])<ref>{{cite book|author=International Musicological Society. Congress|title=Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0rMJAQAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Bärenreiter|page=97}}</ref> * [[November 10]] – [[John III, Duke of Cleves]] (d. [[1539]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Francesco Marinoni]], Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. [[1562]]) * [[December 26]] – [[Friedrich Myconius]], German Lutheran theologian (d. [[1546]]) * [[December 30]] – [[Ebussuud Efendi]], Ottoman Grand Mufti (d. [[1574]]) * ''approx. date –'' [[Properzia de' Rossi]], Italian Renaissance sculptor (d. [[1530]]) * ''date unknown'' **[[Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus]], Scottish noble (d. [[1556]]) **[[Luca Ghini]], Italian physician and botanist (d. [[1566]]) **[[Bars Bolud Jinong]], Mongol Khagan (d. [[1531]]) **[[Argula von Grumbach]], German Protestant reformer (d. [[1564]]) **[[Jean Salmon Macrin]], French poet (d. [[1557]]) **[[Caspar Schwenckfeld]], German theologian (d. [[1561]]) **[[Anna Bielke]], Swedish noble and commander (d. [[1525]]) **[[David Reubeni]], Jewish political activist and mystic (d. [[1541]]) * ''probable'' ** [[Wijerd Jelckama]], Frisian rebel and warlord (d. [[1523]]) ** [[Adriaen Isenbrandt]], Flemish painter (d. [[1551]]) ** [[Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich]], Lord Chancellor of England (d. [[1567]])<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Rich, Richard Rich, 1st Baron |volume= 23 | page= 293 |quote= RICH, RICHARD, 1st Baron Rich (1490?–1567), lord chancellor, was born of a Hampshire family about 1490}}</ref> ** [[María de Toledo]], Vicereine and regent of the Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo (d. [[1549]]) ** [[John Taverner]], English composer and organist (d. [[1545]]) ** [[María de Salinas]], Lady Willoughby, Spanish [[lady-in-waiting]] and friend to [[Catherine of Aragon]] ** [[Quilago]], queen regnant of the [[Cochasquí]] in Ecuador (d. [[1515]]) == Deaths == [[File:Matthias Corvinus.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|King [[Matthias Corvinus]]]] [[File:Santa Joana, Princesa de Portugal.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|Blessed [[Joanna, Princess of Portugal|Joanna]]]] * [[January 27]] – [[Ashikaga Yoshimasa]], Japanese shōgun (b. [[1435]]) * [[March 6]] – [[Ivan the Young]], Ruler of Tver (b. [[1458]]) * [[April 6]] – King [[Matthias Corvinus]] of Hungary (b. [[1443]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Hungarian Book Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6U85AQAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Hungarian Publishers' and Booksellers' Association|page=2}}</ref> * [[May 12]] – [[Joanna, Princess of Portugal|Joanna]], Portuguese [[Roman Catholic]] blessed and regent (b. [[1452]]) * [[May 22]] – [[Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent]] (b. [[1416]]) * [[August 11]] – [[Frans van Brederode]], Dutch rebel leader (b. [[1465]]) * ''date unknown'' ** [[Martí Joan de Galba]], Catalan novelist ** [[Aonghas Óg]], last independent [[Lord of the Isles]] == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1490}} [[Category:1490| ]]
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