1488

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1485 1486 1487 - 1488 - 1489 1490 1491\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
14th century - 15th century - 16th century\n|}\n

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* February 3 - 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.\n* Battle of St.Aubin-du-Cormier. Troops loyal to King Charles VIII of France defeat rebel forces led by the Dukes of Orleans and Brittany in the main engagement of the Mad War.\n* Xiao Zong becomes emperor of China (Ming dynasty). \n* James IV succeeds his father James III as King of Scotland.\n* Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford takes possession of Cardiff Castle.\n* Michelangelo Buonarroti becomes apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio.

Births

\n* Correggio, Italian painter\n* Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (+ 1568)\n* Rabbi Yosef Karo, Jewish scholar (+ 1575)\n* Sebastian Münster, scholar, cartographer, cosmographer\n* Ursula Southeil, prophetess (conjectural date)

Deaths

\n* June 11 - James III of Scotland\n*September 9 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany, from a fall from a horse

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