1482

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[edit] Events

  • Portuguese fortify Fort Elmina on the Gold Coast
  • Portuguese erect the Fort of Sao Jorge de Mina near the mouth of River Benya
  • Tizoc rules the Aztecs
  • Diogo Cão, a Portuguese navigator, becomes the first European to sail up the Congo.
  • Ivan III renounces the Mongol Khanate rule over Russia
  • Fictive date of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)