1484

Years: 1481 1482 1483 - 1484 - 1485 1486 1487

Decades: 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

1484 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1484 MCDLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2237
Armenian calendar	933 ԹՎ ՋԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	6234
Balinese saka calendar	1405–1406
Bengali calendar	890–891
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) 4181 or 3974     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4182 or 3975
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

• July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River
• July 22 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas captured.
• August 29 - Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV as the 211th pope.
• 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

Births

• January 1 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (died 1531)
• January 17 - George Spalatin, German religious reformer (died 1545)
• February 21 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (died 1535)
• April 12 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (died 1546)
• November 29 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (died 1551)
• Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1543)
• Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (died 1566)
• Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (died 1558)
• Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (died 1531)

Deaths

• March 4 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (born 1458)
• August 12 - Pope Sixtus IV (born 1414)
• August 12 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (born 1395)
• William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (born 1410)
• Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (born c1429)
• John of Kolno, Polish navigator (born 1435)
• Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (born 1432)