In 1488 he was appointed Governor of the Netherlands ( until 1493 ) and marched with the imperial forces to free the Roman king Maximilian from his imprisonment at Bruges, and when, in 1489, the King returned to Germany, Albert was left as his representative to prosecute the war against the rebels.

The Schwabe publishing house was founded in 1488 by Johannes Petri and is the oldest publishing house still in business.

As early as 1488, when his father was in East Frisia fighting on behalf of the emperor, George was regent of the ducal possessions, which included the Margraviate of Meissen with the cities of Dresden and Leipzig.

After 1488, no other appointments of women are known, although it is said that the Garter was granted to Neapolitan poet Laura Bacio Terricina, by Edward VI.

Ursula Southeil ( c. 1488 – 1561 ) ( also variously spelt as Ursula Southill, Ursula Soothtell or Ursula Sontheil ), better known as Mother Shipton, was an English soothsayer and prophetess.

Sebastian Münster ( 20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552 ), was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Hebrew scholar.

Year 1488 ( MCDLXXXVIII ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Myles Coverdale ( also spelt Miles Coverdale ) ( c. 1488 – 20 January 1569 ) was a 16th-century Bible translator who produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English.

He was born probably in the district known as Coverdale, in that district of the North Riding of Yorkshire called Richmondshire, England, in or around 1488.

Thus, the first modern rounding of the cape in 1488 by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was a milestone in the attempts by the Portuguese to establish direct trade relations with the Far East ( although in his histories Herodotus proves, disbelievingly, that some Phoenicians had done so far earlier than this ).

The first European to reach the cape was the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, who named it the " Cape of Storms " ( Cabo das Tormentas ).

Diogo Cão, discovered the Congo in 1482 and reached Cape Cross in 1486 ; Bartolomeu Dias doubled the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, thus proving that the Indian Ocean was accessible by sea.

In 1488 the world's first writers ' club, called Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana, was founded in Kraków.

Dias's expedition reached its furthest point on 12 March 1488 when they anchored at Kwaaihoek, near the mouth of the Bushman's River, where a padrão — the Padrão de São Gregório — was erected before turning back.

It was only on the return voyage that he actually discovered the Cape of Good Hope, in May 1488.

James IV ( 17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513 ) was King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death.

His father was killed fighting rebels at the Battle of Sauchieburn on 11 June 1488, and James took the throne and was crowned at Scone on 24 June.

John Skelton studied at the University of Oxford in the early 1480s and was advanced to the degree of " poet laureate " in 1488, when he joined the court of King Henry VII to tutor the future Henry VIII.

In 1488, he was taken prisoner in Bruges by the citizens, and was freed only upon making far-reaching concessions.

In 1479, Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, was imprisoned in David's Tower for plotting against his brother, King James III ( ruled 1460 – 1488 ).

A suitable room was finally built above the Divinity School, and completed in 1488.

Isaac ’ s relationship with Lorenzo de ’ Medici must have been fairly close, because allegedly between 1488 and 1489 he composed the music for a play called “ San Giovanni e San Paolo ”, written by Medici himself.

For example, the town was called ' Newtown ' in a 1488 Act of Parliament The name ' newtown ' still survives in Newtown Avenue, and Newtown House.

After the death of her husband she concentrated on scholarly pursuits, publishing a volume of her letters in 1488, called Epistolae familiares.

A drawing of a design for a flying machine by Leonardo da Vinci ( c. 1488 ).

The first printed edition appeared in 1488 ( edited by Demetrios Chalkokondyles and published by Bernardus Nerlius, Nerius Nerlius, and Demetrius Damilas in Florence, Italy ).

Documents first mentioned and discovered by Taiseki-ji priest Nikkyo in 1488 claimed that Nichiren passed full authority “ to Nikkō alone.

* The editio princeps of both the Iliad and the Odyssey is by Demetrius Chalcondyles in Florence, most likely from 1488.

* Cathedral of Pavia ( Duomo di Pavia ), begun in 1488 ; however, only by 1898 were the façade and the dome completed according to the original design.

The Sheng ' an waiji ( 升庵外集 ) collection by the poet Yang Shen ( 楊慎, 1488 – 1559 ) gives different 5th and 9th names for the dragon's nine children: the taotie ( 饕餮 ), which loves to eat and is found on food-related wares, and the jiaotu ( 椒圖 ), which looks like a conch or clam, does not like to be disturbed, and is used on the front door or the doorstep.

Around the end of the fifteenth century, King James IV ( ruled 1488 – 1513 ) built Holyroodhouse, by the abbey, for his principal Edinburgh residence, and the castle's role as a royal home subsequently declined.

According to his reading of the painting, the scene was inspired by the text in a Homeric hymn published in Florence in 1488 by the Greek refugee Demetrios Chalkokondyles:

Giving added support to this interpretation of Botticelli as a born-again Apelles is the fact that that very claim was voiced in 1488 by Ugolino Verino in a poem entitled " On Giving Praise to the History of Florence.

1485 ), born c. 1459 ), wife of a cloth merchant William Gardiner, of London, sometimes spelled William Gardynyr for his Welsh descent ( born c. 1450 ), having by him: Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester ( c. 1490 – 12 November 1555 ); Richard Gardiner ( 1486 – 1548 ); and William Gardiner, ( 1488 – 1549 )

Bordered by FM 2978 on the West and FM 1488 and the Jones State Forest on the North ( opened 1993 ).

A French translation by Master John Bataillier is dated 1476 ; Jean de Vigny's appeared at Paris, 1488 ; an Italian one by Nic.

* 1488 – Discovery and passage of the Cape of Good Hope by Bartolomeu Dias in Mossel Bay

In January 1488, in Parliament, James tried to gain supporters by making his second son Duke of Ross and four Lairds full Lords of Parliament.

James's eldest son and heir, the future James IV, was delivered into the hands of the rebels by Schaw of Sauchie on 2 February 1488.

In 1488, Pope Innocent VIII gave permission for the translation of her relics in Vadstena.

In 1488 Pope Innocent VIII confirmed the excommunication, at which time Thaddeus appealed the decision and a commission was set up.

On 30 July 1488 came the news that Pope Innocent VIII had given to Ottaviano Riario the official investiture of his state " until his line ended.

In 1488 Pope Innocent VIII accepted the gift of 100 slaves from Ferdinand II of Aragon and distributed those slaves to his cardinals and the Roman nobility.