1482
Years:
1479 1480 1481 - 1482 - 1483 1484 1485Decades:
1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510sCenturies:
14th century - 15th century - 16th century
Events
- Portuguese fortify Fort Elmina on the Gold Coast
- Portuguese erect the Fort of Sao Jorge de Mina near the mouth of River Benya
- Tizoc rules the Aztecs
- Diogo Cão, a Portuguese navigator, becomes the first European to sail up the Congo.
- Ivan III renounces the Mongol Khanate rule over Russia
- Fictive date of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Births
- Richard Aertsz, Dutch historical painter (died 1577)
- Franciabigio, Florentine painter (died 1525)
- Leo Jud, Swiss religious reformer (died 1542)
- Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (died 1532)
- Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (died 1531)
- Richard Pace, English diplomat (approximate date; died 1536)
- Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (died 1511)
- Georg Tannstetter, Austrian humanist (died 1193)
Deaths
- March 27 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1457)
- May 10 - Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1397)
- August 25 - Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (born 1429)
- Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (born 1400)
- Hugo van der Goes, Flemish artist
- Federico da Montefeltro, Italian mercenary (born 1422)
- Luca Della Robbia, Italian sculptor (born 1400)
- Philibert I of Savoy (born 1465)