1490

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

Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s

Years: 1485 1486 1487 1488 1489 - 1490 - 1491 1492 1493 1494 1495

• 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.

Births

• March 24 - Georg Agricola, German scholar, scientist (+ 1555)
• May 16 - Albert, Duke of Prussia (+ 1568)
• June 28 - Albert of Mainz, elector, archbishop
• Vittoria Colonna, Italian poetess (+ 1547)
• Jean Salmon Macri[?], poet (+ 1557)
• Andrej Perlah[?], Slovene mathematician
• Philip, Duke of Nemours[?], son of Philip II of Savoy
• Bernhard von Reesen Gdansk merchant (approximate date)
• Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig, German theologian (+ 1561)

Deaths

• Charles I of Savoy