    __notoc__ year 1490 (mcdxc) was a common year starting on friday (link will display the full calendar) of the julian calendar. == events == === january&ndash;december === * january 4 &ndash; anne of brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of france will be considered as guilty of the crime of lÃ¨se-majestÃ©. * march 13 &ndash; charles ii becomes duke of savoy at age 1; his mother blanche of montferrato is regent. * july 13 &ndash; john of kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the holy trinity church in hrastovlje (now southwestern slovenia). * december 19 &ndash; anne of brittany is married to maximilian i, holy roman emperor by proxy. === date unknown === * ashikaga yoshitane becomes shogun of japan. * perkin warbeck claims to be the son of king edward iv of england at the court of burgundy. * traditional date of the battle of glendale (skye) between the scottish clans macdonald and macleod. * catholic missionaries arrive in the african kingdom of kongo. * pÃªro 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, the schlosskirche in wittenberg is begun. * the chinese scholar and printer hua sui invents bronze-metal movable type printing in china, although the earlier wang zhen had experimented with tin movable type in 1298 and the koreans had separately innovated bronze movable type. * tirant lo blanch by joanot martorell and martÃ­ 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). == births == * february 17 &ndash; charles iii, duke of bourbon, constable of france (d. 1527) * march 24 &ndash; georgius agricola, german scholar and scientist (d. 1555) * april &ndash; vittoria colonna, italian poet (d. 1547) * may 16 &ndash; albert, duke in prussia (d. 1568) * june 28 &ndash; albert of mainz, german elector and archbishop (d. 1545) * october &ndash; olaus magnus, swedish ecclesia
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