Years: 1481 1482 1483 - 1484 - 1485 1486 1487

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

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

Events

• July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cao finds the mouth of Congo River
• December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger
• First cuirassier units (kyrissers) formed in Austria

Births

• January 1 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer
• Julius Caesar Scaliger, humanist scholar

Deaths

• August 12 - Pope Sixtus IV
• John of Kolno, semi-legendary Polish sailor and navigator serving for the court of Denmark.

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