1490

Years: 1487 1488 1489 - 1490 - 1491 1492 1493

Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s

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

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

Births

• March 24 - Georg Agricola, German scholar, scientist (+ 1555)
• May 16 - Albert, Duke of Prussia (+ 1568)
• June 28 - Albert of Mainz, elector, archbishop
• Vittoria Colonna, Italian poetess (+ 1547)
• Jean Salmon Macri, poet (+ 1557)
• Andrej Perlah, Slovene mathematician
• Philip, Duke of Nemours, son of Philip II of Savoy
• Bernhard von Reesen Gdansk merchant (approximate date)
• Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, German theologian (+ 1561)

Deaths

• Charles I of Savoy