1479
year
1479 (MCDLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1479th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 479th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 15th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1470s decade. As of the start of 1479, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1440s 1450s 1460s – 1470s – 1480s 1490s 1500s |
| Years: | 1476 1477 1478 – 1479 – 1480 1481 1482 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1479 MCDLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2232 |
| Armenian calendar | 928 ԹՎ ՋԻԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6229 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1400–1401 |
| Bengali calendar | 886 |
| Berber calendar | 2429 |
| English Regnal year | 18 Edw. 4 – 19 Edw. 4 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2023 |
| Burmese calendar | 841 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6987–6988 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4175 or 4115 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4176 or 4116 |
| Coptic calendar | 1195–1196 |
| Discordian calendar | 2645 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1471–1472 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5239–5240 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1535–1536 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1400–1401 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4579–4580 |
| Holocene calendar | 11479 |
| Igbo calendar | 479–480 |
| Iranian calendar | 857–858 |
| Islamic calendar | 883–884 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 11 (文明１１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1395–1396 |
| Julian calendar | 1479 MCDLXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3812 |
| Minguo calendar | 433 before ROC 民前433年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 11 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2021–2022 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1605 or 1224 or 452 — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1606 or 1225 or 453 |
Events change
- January 20 – Ferdinand II becomes king of Aragon and rules together with his wife Isabella, queen of Castile over most of the Iberian peninsula. Together they take over Granada in 1492, ending 800 years of Moorish rule.
- January 25 – Treaty of Istanbul between Ottoman Empire and Republic of Venice, in which Venice agrees to give land to the Ottomans and pay them 10,000 ducats a year.
- August 7 – Battle of Guinegate – A French army sent to invade the Netherlands is defeated by Maximilian of Austria.
- September 4 – Treaty of Alcáçovas ends War of Castilian Succession.
- October 13 – Battle of Kenyérmező – The Hungarian army led by Pál Kinizsi and István Báthori defeats the Ottoman Turk army in Transsylvania, Hungary.
- Christopher Columbus, a sailor and trader in the Genoese community in Portugal, marries Felipa Perestrelo Moniz and receives as dowry her dead father's maps and papers charting the seas and winds around the Madeira Islands and other Portuguese island colonies.