1484
year
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.
| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1484 MCDLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2237 |
| Armenian calendar | 933 ԹՎ ՋԼԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6234 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1405–1406 |
| Bengali calendar | 891 |
| Berber calendar | 2434 |
| English Regnal year | 1 Ric. 3 – 2 Ric. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2028 |
| Burmese calendar | 846 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6992–6993 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4180 or 4120 — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4181 or 4121 |
| Coptic calendar | 1200–1201 |
| Discordian calendar | 2650 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1476–1477 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5244–5245 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1540–1541 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1405–1406 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4584–4585 |
| Holocene calendar | 11484 |
| Igbo calendar | 484–485 |
| Iranian calendar | 862–863 |
| Islamic calendar | 888–889 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunmei 16 (文明１６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1400–1401 |
| Julian calendar | 1484 MCDLXXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3817 |
| Minguo calendar | 428 before ROC 民前428年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 16 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2026–2027 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1610 or 1229 or 457 — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1611 or 1230 or 458 |
Events
change- 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.