1482

1482 (MCDLXXXII) was a common year beginning on a Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• 28 February: the Marquis of Cadiz, Rodrigo Ponce de León and Núñez, conquest for the Kingdom of Castile the square of Alhama of Granada, Spain, (Guerra de Granada).
• Christopher Columbus travels to Guinea.
• An expedition, sent by the Spanish military Alonso Fernández de Lugo (26), establishes Spanish enclaves in the Canary Islands.
• In Africa, Diego Cao is the first European to navigate the Congo River.

Art and literature

• Sandro Botticelli (the Italian Renaissance painter): Madonna del Magnificat.
• Michelangelo attends the school of Francesco de Urbino.

Science and technology

• Marsilio Ficino (Italian philosopher) writes "Theologia platónica".

Births

• 29 June: Mary of Aragon, queen consorte of Portugal (f. 1517), wife of King Manuel I.
• Richard Aertsz, Dutch painter (f. 1577).
• Juan Ecolampadio, German religious (f. 1531).
• Francebigio, Florentine painter (f. 1525).
• Leo Jud, Swiss religious (f. 1542).
• Bernardino Luini, Italian painter (f. 1532).
• Richard Pace, English diplomat (approximately 1536).
• Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (f. 1511).
• Georg Tannstetter, Austrian humanist (f. 1535).
• Atius Crescenti, inventor (f. 1482).

Deaths

• March 27: María de Borgoña, daughter of Carlos de Borgoña (n. 1457).
• May 10: Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician (n. 1397).
• 1 July: Alonso Carrillo de Acuña, Spanish priest, Archbishop of Toledo.
• August 25: Margarita de Anjou, an English aristocrat (n. 1429), wife of Henry VI of England.
• Hugo van der Goes, painter of the Flemish school.
• Luca della Robbia, Florentine sculptor (n. 1400).