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Events
- January 25 - Peter Arbues, chief of the Spanish Inquisition, is assassinated when he is praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain
- July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River
- December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger
- The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria
- First cuirassier units (kyrissers) formed in Austria
Births
- January 1 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (died 1531)
- January 17 - George Spalatin, German religious reformer (died 1545)
- February 21 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (died 1535)
- April 12 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (died 1546)
- November 29 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (died 1551)
- Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1543)
- Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (died 1566)
- Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (died 1558)
- Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (died 1531)
Deaths
- March 4 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (born 1458)
- August 12 - Pope Sixtus IV (born 1414)
- August 12 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (born 1395)
- William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (born 1410)
- Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor
- John of Kolno, Polish navigator (born 1435)
- Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (born 1432)
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