1488

1488 (MCDLXXXVIII) was a leap year beginning on a Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• May - Bartolomeu Dias discovers the Cabo de las Tormentas.
• The bourgeois revolted of Bruges make King Maximilian I prisoner.
• Christopher Columbus sends his brother Bartholomew to offer his ideas to the kings of France and England.
• James IV of Scotland is crowned.

Science and technology

• Nicholas of Cusa: "Opera Omnia". (German philosopher).

Births

• March 19 - Johannes Magnus, the last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden.
• Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter.
• Francisco Dávila, founder of Hato Mayor del Rey, as a portion of land dedicated to livestock and agriculture, in 1520. Founder of the Majorazgo de Dávila in the city of Santo Domingo on 23 August 1554.
• Lion the African, traveler of Granada.

Deaths

• June 11 - King James III of Scotland.
• July 9 - Shaikh Haydar Safaví the father of the founder of the Safavida dynasty, Ismaíl I.
• September 9 - Francis II of Brittany, Duke of Brittany, for the fall of a horse.
• Diego de Valera, Castilian chronicler.
• Andrea del Verrocchio, sculptor and Italian painter.