1488

Years: 1485 1486 1487 - 1488 - 1489 1490 1491

Decades: 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

• February 3 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, at the tip of Africa becoming the first known European to travel this far south.
• Battle of St.Aubin-du-Cormier. Troops loyal to King Charles VIII of France defeat rebel forces led by the Dukes of Orleans and Brittany in the main engagement of the Mad War.
• Xiao Zong becomes emperor of China (Ming dynasty).
• James IV succeeds his father James III as King of Scotland.
• Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford takes possession of Cardiff Castle.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti becomes apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio.

Births

• Correggio, Italian painter
• Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (+ 1568)
• Rabbi Yosef Karo, Jewish scholar (+ 1575)
• Sebastian Münster, scholar, cartographer, cosmographer
• Ursula Southeil, prophetess (conjectural date)

Deaths

• June 11 - James III of Scotland
• September 9 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany, from a fall from a horse

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The numbers 14 88 are sometimes used as a code to express a racialist message.