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* The [[Kingdom of Fez]] is founded by the [[Wattasid dynasty]] with Sultan [[Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya]] as its first ruler.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Muzaffar Husain|last1=Syed|first2=Syed Saud|last2=Akhtar|first3=B. D.|last3=Usmani|title=Concise History of Islam|year=2011|place=New Delhi|publisher=Vij Books|isbn=978-9381411094|page=150}}</ref>
* An extensive [[History of slavery|slave trade]] begins in modern [[Cameroon]] as the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] sail up the [[Wouri River]].
* [[Fernão do Po]] claims the central-[[Africa]]n islands [[Bioko]] and [[Annobón]] for [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]].
* Possible discovery of the island of "[[Bacalao (phantom island)|Bacalao]]" (perhaps [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] off North America) by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]].
* First printing of [[Thomas à Kempis]]' ''[[The Imitation of Christ]] (De Imitatione Christi)'' probably concludes posthumously in [[Augsburg]];<ref>{{cite book|last=Tylenda|first=Joseph N.|title=The Imitation of Christ|year=1998|publisher=Vintage Spiritual Classics|isbn=978-0-375-70018-7|page=xxvii}}</ref> it will reach 100 editions and translations by the end of the century.<ref>{{cite book|last=Creasy|first=William C.|title=The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: A New Reading of the 1441 Latin Autograph Manuscript|year=2007|publisher=[[Mercer University Press]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JI7AA0GAbUgC|isbn=9780881460971|page=xi}}</ref>
* [[Johannes de Sacrobosco]]'s ''[[De sphaera mundi]]'' (written c. [[1230]]) is first published in [[Ferrara]], the first printed astronomical book.
* [[Pietro d'Abano]]'s medical texts ''Conciliator differentiarum quae inter philosophos et medicos versantur'' and ''De venenis eorumque remediis'' (written before 1315) are first published.</onlyinclude>
[[Image:Pietro - Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et precipue medicorum - 2989416.tif|thumb|''Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et precipue medicorum'']]