1490

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  • 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.
  • Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action in small-bore tubes.
  • December 19 - Anne of Brittany married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy

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