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* 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
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* 1484 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect ( d. 1546 )
* 1546 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace ( b. 1484 )
* 1432 – Luigi Pulci, Italian poet ( d. 1484 )
# Katharina ( b. Meissen, 24 July 1468 – d. Göttingen, 10 February 1524 ), married firstly on 24 February 1484 in Innsbruck to Duke Sigismund of Austria, and secondly on 1497 to Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Calenberg.
Eventually, the Knights handed Cem over to Pope Innocent VIII ( 1484 – 1492 ).
Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV ( 1471 – 1484 ) and his nephew Giuliano ( Pope Julius II, 1503 – 1513 ).
* 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.
* 1484 – Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg ( d. 1535 )
# Georg " der Fromme " ( 4 March 1484, Ansbach – 27 December 1543, Ansbach ).
The name of a settlement was recorded after St. Adalbert's death in 997 AD as urbs Gyddanyzc and later was written as Kdanzk ( 1148 ), Gdanzc ( 1188 ), Danceke ( 1228 ), Gdansk ( 1236, 1454, 1468, 1484, 1590 ), Danzc ( 1263 ), Danczk ( 1311, 1399, 1410, 1414 – 1438 ), Danczik ( 1399, 1410, 1414 ), Danczig ( 1414 ), Gdąnsk ( 1636 ).
George of Brandenburg-Ansbach () ( 4 March 1484 – 27 December 1543 ) was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern.
Huldrych ( or Ulrich / Ulricht ) Zwingli ( 1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531 ) was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.
Hans Baldung Grien ( c. 1484 – 1545 ) is a German artist in painting and printmaking who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.
* 1484 – George Spalatin, German reformer ( d. 1545 )
* 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland ; Douglas is captured.
* 1545 – George Spalatin, German reformer ( b. 1484 )
# Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg ( 21 February 1484 – 11 July 1535 ), Elector of Brandenburg.
Joachim I Nestor ( 21 February 1484 – 11 July 1535 ) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg ( 1499 – 1535 ).
* 1484 – The College of Arms was formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
* 1484 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland ( b. 1458 )
* 1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1484 and Portuguese
Around 1484, he captured, off the coast of England or Brittany and in the Spanish Sea, three Spanish or Portuguese ships which he brought to King John of Denmark in Copenhagen.
Pointe Noire's ( Black Point ) name originated from Portuguese navigators who saw a block of black rocks on the headland in 1484.
1484 and captain
The new King, Richard III, ordered his transfer to England on 28 October 1484, but before the transfer could be effected Oxford had escaped, having persuaded the captain of Hammes, Sir James Blount, to go with him to join the Earl of Richmond.
1484 and Diogo
The nobles resisted this infringement of their rights ; but their leader, Fernando II, Duke of Braganza, was beheaded for high treason in 1483 ; in 1484 the king stabbed to death his own brother-in-law, Diogo, Duke of Viseu ; and eighty other members of the aristocracy were afterwards executed.
* 1484 — Diogo Cão reached Walvis Bay, south of Namibia.
His older brother Diogo, Duke of Viseu, was stabbed to death in 1484 by the king himself.
* 1484 – Discovery of the Congo River by Diogo Cão
* 1484 – Diogo Cão discovers the Congo river.
1484 and Congo
Between May and September 2003, " Operation Artemis " began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) under UN Security Council Resolution 1484.
1484 and River
After 1484, when he lost the fortresses of Chilia Nouǎ and Cetatea Albǎ to an Ottoman blitz invasion, Stephen had to face not only new Turkish onslaughts which he defeated again on November 16, 1485 at Catlabuga Lake and at Șcheia on the Siret River in March 1486, but also the Polish designs on Moldavian independence.
1484 and .
A self-portrait, a drawing in silverpoint, is dated 1484 ( Albertina, Vienna ) “ when I was a child ," as his later inscription says.
# John ( b. and d. Torgau, 24 June 1484 ).
Starting from 1483 or 1484, by recommendation of Benedetto da Maiano, he apprenticed in the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli.
Huldrych Zwingli was born on 1 January 1484 in Wildhaus, Switzerland in the Toggenburg valley to a family of farmers, the third child among nine siblings.
This land supported 13 million people in 1484 and 20 million people in 1700.
In 1484, about 97 % of France's 13 million people lived in rural villages ; in 1700, at least 80 % of the 20 million people population were peasants.
Hans Baldung was born in Swabia, Germany in the year 1484 to a family of intellectuals, academics and professionals.
– and Portuguese
Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44
* 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese politician and soldier, 13th President of Portugal ( d. 1964 )
* 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal
* 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
* 1977 – Deco, Portuguese footballer
* 1969 – Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
* 1982 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
* 1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
* 1991 – Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
Amalaric ( Gothic: Amalareiks ), or in Spanish and Portuguese, Amalarico, ( 502 – 531 ) was king of the Visigoths from 526 until his assassination in 531.
* 1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383 – 1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
* 1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
* 1195 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint ( d. 1231 )
* 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese politician, 9th President of Portugal ( d. 1965 )
* 1965 – Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
* 1971 – João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese footballer
* 1986 – Rúben Micael, Portuguese footballer
* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
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