Editing 1490 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Anne of Brittany]] announces that all those who ally themselves with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of [[Lèse-majesté]].
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Charles II, Duke of Savoy|Charles II]] becomes [[Duke of Savoy]] at age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
* [[March]] or [[April]] &ndash; [[1490 Qingyang event]], a presumed [[meteor shower]] or [[List of meteor air bursts|air burst]] over [[Qingyang, Gansu|Qingyang]] in [[Ming dynasty]] China, said to have caused casualties.
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Battle of Bonefield]]: [[John Corvinus]] is defeated by the Kingdom of Hungary. 
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[John of Kastav]] finishes a cycle of frescoes in the [[Holy Trinity Church (Hrastovlje)|Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje]] (modern-day southwestern Slovenia).
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Ashikaga Yoshitane]] becomes 10th [[Ashikaga shogunate|Muromachi shōgun]] of [[Japan]].
* [[November 20]] &ndash; The first edition of the chivalric romance ''[[Tirant lo Blanch]]'', by [[Joanot Martorell]], is printed in [[Valencia]].
* [[December 19]] &ndash; Anne of Brittany is married to [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] by proxy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wellman |first1=Kathleen |title=Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France |date=2013 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300178852 |page=70 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AtUPUB6znMC&pg=PA70|language=en}}</ref>

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* [[Perkin Warbeck]] claims to be the son of King [[Henry VII of England]], at the court of [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundy]].
* Traditional date of the [[Battle of Glendale (Skye)]] between the [[Scottish clan]]s [[Clan Donald|MacDonald]] and [[Clan MacLeod|MacLeod]].
* [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[missionaries]] arrive in the African [[Kingdom of Kongo]].
* [[Pêro da Covilhã]] arrives in [[Ethiopia]].
* 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.
* Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp: the flame is enclosed in a glass tube, placed inside a water-filled glass globe.
* [[All Saints' Church, Wittenberg|All Saints' Church, the ''Schlosskirche'']] in [[Wittenberg]], is begun.
* ''[[Tirant lo Blanch]]'', by [[Joanot Martorell]] and [[Martí Joan de Galba]], is published.
* [[Aldus Manutius]] moves to [[Venice]].
* [[John Colet]] receives his M.A. from [[Magdalen College, Oxford]].
* [[Johann Reuchlin]] meets [[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]].
* Merchants carry [[coffee]] from [[Yemen]] to [[Mecca]] ''(approximate date)''.
* [[Battle of Chocontá]]: The northern (''[[zaque]]'') tribes of the [[pre-Columbian era|pre-Columbian]] [[Muisca Confederation]] (central [[Colombia]]) are beaten by the southern (''[[zipa]]'') tribes.
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