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Events
- Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published.
- Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan.
- Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
- Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
- John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
- Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun.
- Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia.
- Catholic missionaries arrive in the African kingdom of Kongo.
- 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.
- December 19 - Anne of Brittany married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy
Births
- February 17 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (died 1527)
- March 24 - Georg Agricola, German scholar and scientist (died 1555)
- May 16 - Duke Albert of Prussia (died 1568)
- June 28 - Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (died 1545)
- October 12 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (died 1548)
- November 10 - John III, Duke of Cleves (died 1539)
- Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (died 1556)
- Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (died 1547)
- Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (died 1566)
- Adriaen Isenbrant, Flemish painter (died 1551)
- Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (died 1557)
- Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (died 1557)
- Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, German theologian (died 1561)
- Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (died 1567)
- John Taverner, English composer and organist (died 1545)
- Marco Girolamo Vida, Italian poet (died 1566)
Deaths
- January 27 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (born 1435)
- March 6 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
- April 6 - King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (born 1443)
- May 22 - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (born 1416)
- Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist
- Charles I of Savoy (born 1468)
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