1479

Events

January 20 – Fernando II already co-ruler of Crown of Castile with his wife, Isabella I, becomes the King of Aragon upon the death of his father, King Juan II of Aragon and Navarre. He and Isabella rule together over Aragon and Castile, unifying the two kingdoms and controlling most of the Iberian Peninsula. At the same time, King Juan's daughter, Leonor de Trastámara, who had served as regent during times when her father was away fighting in war, becomes Queen of Navarre.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
January 25 – The Treaty of Constantinople is signed between the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Venice, ending 16 years of war between the two powers; Venice will cede Negroponte, Lemnos and Shkodër, and pay an annual sum of 10,000 gold ducats.<ref>Template:The Papacy and the Levant</ref>
January 28 – Leonor de Trastamara, who had served as regent of the Kingdom of Navarre in Spain during the absence of her father, Juan II, is crowned at Tudela. She dies 15 days later at the age of 53.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 12 – Francisco Febo becomes the King of Navarre at the age of 11 upon the death of his grandmother, Queen Leonor (whose late son Gaston de Foix was Francisco's father). Francisco's mother, Magdalena of Valois, serves as regent.<ref>Template:Cite work</ref>
March 26 – Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, concludes a treaty with the Swiss Confederacy hindering the recruitment of Swiss mercenaries by the Emperor.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

April 2 – The Peace of Olomouc is signed between King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and King Vladislaus II of Bohemia, bringing the Bohemian–Hungarian War (1468–1478) to an end.<ref name=Engel/>
April 25 – The ratification of the Treaty of Constantinople in Venice ends the Siege of Shkodra after fifteen months, and brings all of Albania under the Ottoman Empire.
May 13 – Christopher Columbus, an experienced mariner and successful trader in the thriving Genoese expatriate community in Portugal, marries Felipa Perestrelo Moniz (Italian on her father's side), and receives as dowry her late father's maps and papers, charting the seas and winds around the Madeira Islands, and other Portuguese possessions in the Ocean Sea.
June 1 – The University of Copenhagen is inaugurated by King Christian I of Denmark, seven months after he had issued a royal decree on October 4 establishing its creation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

July 21 – The Peace of Olomouc is ratified by King Matthias and King Vladislaus during festivities in Olomouc.<ref name=Engel>Engel, Pál (translated by Tamas Palosfalvi), The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526. I.B. Tauris, 2005, p.305 Template:ISBN</ref>
August 7 – The Battle of Guinegate is fought in the Duchy of Burgundy at what is now the French town of Enguinegatte, as at least 12,000 French infantry, 4,000 cavalry and 8,000 archers commanded by Philippe de Crèvecœur d'Esquerdes are confronted by Maximilian, Duke of Burgundy whose 16,000 men have superior weapons, including the pike. With 11,000 troops grouped in formations of 100 men apiece using the pike square formation" borrowed from Switzerland, the Burgundian troops defeat the French invasion.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
September 4 – The Treaty of Alcáçovas (also known as the Treaty or Peace of Alcáçovas-Toledo) is signed between the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side, and the King of Portugal and his son on the other side, ending the four-year War of the Castilian Succession.<ref>Stephen R. Bown, 1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half (Douglas and McIntyre, 2013) p.76 ISBN 9781553659099</ref>

October 13 – In the Battle of the Breadfield, the army of the Kingdom of Hungary, led by Pál Kinizsi and István Báthory, defeats the army of the Ottoman Empire and Transylvania and Hungary, leaving at least 10,000 Ottoman Turks dead.
November 5 – Grand Admiral Gedik Ahmed Pasha of the Ottoman Navy gives the order to ravage the Greek island of Zakynthos, at the time a territory of the Republic of Venice, and the Ottoman troops <ref>destroy most of the island's churches and monasteries and many of its dwellings.William Miller, The Latins in the Levant: A History of Frankish Greece (1204–1566) (Cambridge University Press, 1964)</ref>
December 19 – The surviving suspect in the Pazzi conspiracy and April 26, 1478, assassination of Giuliano de' Medici in the Republic of Florence, is executed after being returned to Florence by order of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. The conspirator, Bernardo Bandini dei Baroncelli, is hanged from a window of the Palazzo del Popolo, Florence's "Palace of the People".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The plague breaks out in Florence.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Johann Neumeister prints a new edition of Juan de Torquemada's Meditations, or the Contemplations of the Most Devout.<ref name="WDL11359">Template:Cite web</ref>

March 12 – Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (d. 1516)
March 13 – Lazarus Spengler, German hymnwriter (d. 1534)
March 20 – Ippolito d'Este, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1520)
March 25 – Vasili III of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
May 3 – Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1552)
May 5 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
May 12 – Pompeo Colonna, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)
June 14 – Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian scholar and poet (d. 1552)
June 15 – Lisa del Giocondo, Florentine noblewoman believed to be the subject of the Mona Lisa (d. 1542)
August 14 – Catherine of York, English princess, aunt of Henry VIII (d. 1527)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
September 17 – Celio Calcagnini, Italian astronomer (d. 1541)
October 28 – John Gage, English courtier of the Tudor period (d. 1556)
November 6
- Joanna of Castile, Queen of Philip I of Castile, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1555)
- Philip I, Margrave of Baden (d. 1533)
December – Ayşe Hafsa Sultan, Ottoman Valide Sultan (d. 1534)
date unknown
- Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (d. 1552)
- Vallabhacharya, Indian founder of the Vallabha sect of Hinduism (d. 1531)
probable – Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1522)