1490

Year 1490 (MCDXC ) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

• January 4 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who ally themselves with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of Lèse-majesté.
• March 13 – Charles II becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
• March or April – 1490 Qingyang event, a presumed meteor shower or air burst over Qingyang in Ming dynasty China, said to have caused casualties.
• July 4 – Battle of Bonefield: John Corvinus is defeated by the Kingdom of Hungary.
• July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje (modern-day southwestern Slovenia).
• July 22 – Ashikaga Yoshitane becomes 10th Muromachi shōgun of Japan.
• November 20 – The first edition of the chivalric romance Tirant lo Blanch , by Joanot Martorell, is printed in Valencia.
• December 19 – Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.^[1]

• Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Henry VII of England, at the court of Burgundy.
• Traditional date of the Battle of Glendale (Skye) between the Scottish clans MacDonald and MacLeod.
• Catholic missionaries arrive in the African Kingdom of Kongo.
• Pêro da Covilhã arrives in Ethiopia.
• 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.
• Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp: the flame is enclosed in a glass tube, placed inside a water-filled glass globe.
• All Saints' Church, the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg, is begun.
• Tirant lo Blanch , by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba, is published.
• Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
• John Colet receives his M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
• Johann Reuchlin meets Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
• Merchants carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca (approximate date).
• Battle of Chocontá: The northern (zaque ) tribes of the pre-Columbian Muisca Confederation (central Colombia) are beaten by the southern (zipa ) tribes.

• February 14 – Valentin Friedland, German scholar and educator of the Reformation (d. 1556)
• February 17 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, French military leader (d. 1527)
• March 6 – Fridolin Sicher, Swiss composer (d. 1546)
• March 22 – Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian noble (d. 1538)
• March 24 – Giovanni Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1553)
• April – Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (d. 1547)
• April 4 – Vojtěch I of Pernstein, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1534)
• May 17 – Albert, Duke of Prussia, last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d. 1568)
• June 28 – Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (d. 1545)
• July 25 – Amalie of the Palatinate, Duchess consort of Pomerania (d. 1524)
• August 5 – Andrey of Staritsa, son of Ivan III "the Great" of Russia (d. 1537)
• September 23 – Johann Heß, German theologian (d. 1547)
• October – Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (d. 1557)
• October 12 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548)^[2]
• November 10 – John III, Duke of Cleves (d. 1539)
• December 25 – Francesco Marinoni, Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1562)
• December 26 – Friedrich Myconius, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1546)
• December 30 – Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman Grand Mufti (d. 1574)
• approx. date – Properzia de' Rossi, Italian Renaissance sculptor (d. 1530)
• date unknown
  • Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, Scottish noble (d. 1556)
  • Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1566)
  • Bars Bolud Jinong, Mongol Khagan (d. 1531)
  • Argula von Grumbach, German Protestant reformer (d. 1564)
  • Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (d. 1557)
  • Caspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian (d. 1561)
  • Anna Bielke, Swedish noble and commander (d. 1525)
  • David Reubeni, Jewish political activist and mystic (d. 1541)
• probable
  • Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (d. 1523)
  • Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish painter (d. 1551)
  • Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1567)^[3]
  • María de Toledo, Vicereine and regent of the Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo (d. 1549)
  • John Taverner, English composer and organist (d. 1545)
  • María de Salinas, Lady Willoughby, Spanish lady-in-waiting and friend to Catherine of Aragon
  • Quilago, queen regnant of the Cochasquí in Ecuador (d. 1515)

• January 27 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1435)
• March 6 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
• April 6 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)^[4]
• May 12 – Joanna, Portuguese Roman Catholic blessed and regent (b. 1452)
• May 22 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (b. 1416)
• August 11 – Frans van Brederode, Dutch rebel leader (b. 1465)
• date unknown
  • Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist
  • Aonghas Óg, last independent Lord of the Isles

• 1490

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