History
1480 
World
General
Population: 443 Million*- Exploration: Columbus begins asking for money
- Mathematics: First use of plus and minus signs
- Technology: Leonardo da Vinci invents parachute - helicopter and wheel-lock musket conceived
- Deaths: Artist Jean Fouquet
Americas
- Aztec's Sun Stone calendar created
Civil wars rage in N Mayan states
Europe
- England: Giovanni Cabotto moves to England and convinces Henry VII to let them go to New World
- France: Extinction of the house of Anjou (male-line)
- German States: German magician Georg Faust born – prototype of the Faust legend
- Italian States: Ludovico Sforza becomes regent of Milan
- Rhodes: Ottoman Turks besiege Rhodes on Mediterranean – held by Knights of St. John
Last use of trebuchet in warfare at siege of Rhodes - Russia: Ivan III names self Czar of Russia – ends Muscovy's allegiance to the Tartars (Golden Horde) - Mongolia ousted
- Spain: Spanish Inquisition introduced to uncover heresy among converted Jews
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Turks seige Rhodes
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