1490

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1487 1488 1489 – 1490 – 1491 1492 1493

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  King Matthias Corvinus

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  Blessed Joanna

1490 (MCDXC) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1490th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 490th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 15th century, and the 1st year of the 1490s decade. As of the start of 1490, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published.
• 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.
• Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany.
• Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action in small-bore tubes.
• December 19 – Anne of Brittany married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy

Births

• Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian warlord and rebel (d. 1523)