1490

Events 
 Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published.
 Yoshitane becomes Ashikaga shogun of Japan.
 Charles John Amadeus of Savoy becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1, mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
 Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
 John Colet receives M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
 Castle Church in Wittenberg is begun.
 Pedro de Covilham arrives in Ethiopia.
 Catholic missionaries arrive in the African kingdom of Kongo.
 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.
 December 19 – Anne of Brittany married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy

 Births 
 Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian warlord and rebel (d. 1523)

 Deaths