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.

Senfl was probably born in Basel around 1486, and lived in Zürich from 1488 until 1496, when he joined the choir of the Hofkapelle of Emperor Maximilian I in Augsburg.

Iizasa Ienao ( 飯篠 長威斎 家直 Iizasa Chōi-sai Ienao, c. 1387 – c. 1488 ) was a respected spearman and swordsman whose daimyo was deposed, encouraging him to relinquish control of his household to conduct purification rituals and study martial arts in isolation.

In 1901, she became the first woman to be made a Lady of the Garter since 1488.

The arms are derived from the arms of Inger, Lady of Austraat, a noblewoman who lived in Austrått manor, Ørland from 1488 – 1555 and who played a major role in the history of the area.

The writings and rulings of those such as Rashi ( 1040 – 1105 ), Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ), Yosef Karo ( 1488 – 1575 ) who published the most widely accepted code of Jewish law the Shulkhan Arukh, Isaac Luria ( 1534 – 1572 ), the Vilna Gaon ( 1720 – 1797 ), the Chafetz Chaim ( 1838 – 1933 ) and many others have shaped Jewish religious law for almost two thousand years, as their religious rulings were published, distributed, studied, and observed until the present time.

In 1486 he traveled to Hungary as part of the group from Ferrara involved in the installation of a d ' Este as Archbishop of Esztergom, and in 1487 and 1488 he made two separate trips to Rome to negotiate the benefices given to him by Duke Ercole.

Boosting of moose populations in Alaska for hunting purposes is one of the reasons given for allowing aerial or airborne methods to remove wolves in designated areas, e. g., Craig Medred: " A kill of 124 wolves would thus translate to survival of 1488 moose or 2976 caribou or some combination thereof ".

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 ).

Nicolas Chuquet ( 1445, but some sources say 1455, Paris, France – 1488, some sources say 1500, Lyon, France ) was a French mathematician.

( although in some accounts, the date of his death is sometimes given as early as 1477 and as late as 1488 ).

The first possibility, suggested by Barton Hudson in 1979, is that le Petit may have been Johannes Baltazar alias le Petit, since a singer of that name was in the papal chapel between 1488 and 1502, and his name resembles that in the attribution of some " le Petit " motets in a Vatican manuscript.

Jewish cartographers in Portugal, members of the wealthy and influential classes, assisted Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama who first sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 and 1497.

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

Jan's cruel measures had provoked the resistance of the Głogów citizens, and in 1488 the troops of King Matthias Corvinus appeared at the city gates and expelled the duke.

However, after a 1488 revolt of the Tangermünde citizens against an excise tax on beer, the town lost the grace of Elector John Cicero, and the residence was relocated to Berlin-Cölln.

The army of the Kingdom of France, with the help of 5, 000 mercenaries from Switzerland and Italy, defeated the Breton army in 1488, and the last Duke of independent Brittany, Francis II, was forced to submit to a treaty giving the King of France the right to determine the marriage of the Duke's daughter, a 12-year-old girl, the heir to the Duchy.

In 1488 the total debt already amounted to more than 150. 000 guilders.

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.

In 1488, Bartholomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa under the sponsorship of Portugal's John II, from which point he noticed that the coast swung northeast.

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

James IV of Scotland ( r. 1488 – 1513 ) reportedly had a great liking for Scotch whisky, and in 1506 the town of Dundee purchased a large amount of whisky from the Guild of Surgeon Barbers, which held the monopoly on production at the time.

The breakthrough came soon after when John II's captain Bartolomeu Dias returned from rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, having explored as far as the Fish River ( Rio do Infante ) in modern-day South Africa and having verified that the unknown coast stretched away to the northeast.

In 1488, the shipwrecked Korean scholar Choe Bu travelled the length of the Grand Canal on his way from Zhejiang to Beijing ( and on to Korea ), and left a detailed account of his trip.

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

In 1488 John II, Duke of Sagan, destroyed the castle to prevent his enemies from using it.

The Mémoires are divided into " books ", the first six of which were written between 1488 and 1494, and relate the course of events from the beginning of Commines ' career ( 1464 ) up to the death of King Louis.

The commercial revolution ran from approximately the late 14th century, through the 18th century, with Walt Whitman Rostow saying the beginning is " arbitrarily " 1488, the year the first European sailed around the Cape of Good Hope.

James III ( 10 July 1451 – 11 June 1488 ) was King of Scots from 1460 to 1488.

From 1488 onwards, the population of Wezemaal, Werchter and Rotselaar was severely hit by periodically recurring wars ( 1488-1489, 1542, and a series of wars from 1570 up to 1750 ).

He was seen escaping from the battle and seems to have eventually fled to Scotland, where on 19 June 1488 James IV issued a safe conduct to him.

He was also Dean of York from 1488 to 1494, a Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor from 1492 to 1496 and then Dean of Windsor from 1495 to 1505.

Frescos in the nave are by Bernardino Lanzani from the town San Colombano al Lambro ( 1527 ); the remarkable wooden choir in the Gothic style is dated 1488.

Sir Orfeo is preserved in three manuscripts: the oldest, Advocates 19. 2. 1, known as the Auchinleck MS. is dated at about 1330 ; Harley 3810, is from about the beginning of the fifteenth century ; and Ashmole 61, compiled over the course of several years, the portion of the MS. containing Sir Orfeo dating around 1488.

* Patriarch Dionysius I of Constantinople, Saint, reigned from 1466 to 1471 and from 1488 to 1490

The Ruthven family descended from Sir William Ruthven, who was created Lord Ruthven in the Peerage of Scotland in 1488.

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.

He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.

The first reliable references place him in Portugal in 1488, meeting the explorer Bartolomeu Dias who had just sailed around the Cape of Good Hope.

Early expeditions of French Norman sailors to the New World have been suggested: Jean Cousin has been said to have discovered the New World in 1488, four years before Christopher Columbus, when he landed in Brazil around the mouth of the Amazon, but this remains unproven.

Other sources say it was built by his son, Hosokawa Matsumoto, in or around 1488..

In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias becomes the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope.

Accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 / 1488.

Accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 / 1488.

He is also said to have accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope from 1487 to 1488.

He accompanied his brother Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 / 1488, having commanded the supply-ship.