1484

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1450s  1460s  1470s  – 1480s –  1490s  1500s  1510s
Years:	1481 1482 1483 – 1484 – 1485 1486 1487

1484 Media

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  Portrait of Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531)

1484 (MCDLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1484th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 484th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 15th century, and the 5th year of the 1480s decade. As of the start of 1484, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• July 6 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River
• September 15 – Peter Arbues, is assassinated while praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain and he died on September 17. He had been appointed Inquisitor of Aragon by the Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in the campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.
• December 5 – Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.
• The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria.
• First cuirassier units (kyrissers) formed in Austria.