February 20 – Jan I Olbracht, son of King Casimir IV or Poland and, like his older brother Vladislaus, a claimant to the throne of the Kingdom of Hungary, renounces all of his claims in return for the Duchy of Głogów.[3]
March 19 – Having defected to France, Alain I of Albret captures the Château des ducs de Bretagne, the royal palace of Brittany’s capital, Nantes, after the Breton regent, the Marshal Jean IV de Rieux, leads the evacuation of Breton officials.
April–June
April 4 King Charles VIII makes a triumphant entry to the city of Nantes, facing no resistance and marking the conquest of the Duchy of Brittany by France.
July 8 – In what is now Tibet in the People’s Republic of China, Tsokye Dorje becomes the new ruler of the Buddhist Kingdom of Ü-Tsang upon the death of King Ngagi Wangpo.[8]
July 13 – Prince Alfonso, the only legitimate son of King João II of Portugal, and heir apparent to the throne, is killed in an accident when the horse he is riding falls and crushes him.[9]
August 12 – King Henry VII of England summons the members of the English House of Lords and House of Commons to assemble on October 17 at Westminster.
August 15 – The first Feria de Agosto takes place in the Spanish city of Málaga in celebration of the 1487 conquest of the Granadan city by the Kingdom of Castile. The festival is still celebrated in Spain more than 500 years later.
October 17 – The English Parliament assembles at Westminster, and Richard Empson is elected as Speaker of the House of Commons.
October 27 – King Charles VIII of France convenes the Estates of Brittany in Vannes, to counsel Anne of Brittany of France’s conditions for keeping her as Duchess, including the occupation of the Duchy of Brittany by the French army, the appointment of the Viscount Jean de Rohan to be appointed as governor-general of Brittany on behalf of the King of France, the renunciation of Anne’s proxy marriage to the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, and the future marriage of Anne to the French King.
November 15 – To end the siege of Rennes, the remaining portion of the Duchy of Brittany still under control of the Breton royal family, the Duchess Anne signs the Treaty of Rennes and agrees to marry King Charles VIII.
November 23 – Anne of Brittany annuls her marriage contract with the Archduke Maximilian of Austria and is formally engaged to be married to King Charles VIII of France.
December 24 – The Black Army of Hungary and its Bohemian Czech allies, commanded by Stephen Zápolya, defeats Duke Jan II Olbracht at the Battle of Presov in what is now Slovakia.[13]
In the Russian territory of Komi (the modern-day Komi Republic), annexed by Russia in 1478, copper and silver ores are discovered, and the territory gains importance as a mining and metallurgical center.
^Małgorzata Duczmal, Jagiellonowie. Leksykon biograficzny (The Jagiellons: A Biographical Dictionary), Poznań-Kraków 1996, pp. 37–43
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^Frost, Robert (2015). The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania, Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385–1569. Oxford University Press. p. 281. ISBN 9780198208693.
^Manuel Ibo Alfaro, Compendio de historia de España (Impreza de Gregorio Hernando, 1871) p.153 (“Digamos en conclusion, que el cerco de Granada duro 8 meses y 9 dias; desde un sabado 23 de abril de 1491, en que los Reyes Catolicos dieron vista a Granada y comenzo el sition, hasta el 2 de enero de 1490, en que Bobadil del Chico puso las llaves de aquella bella ciudad en manos de los Reyes Catolicos.” (“In conclusion, let us say that the siege of Granada lasted 8 months and 9 days, from Saturday, April 23, 1491, when the Catholic Monarchs first saw Granada and began the siege, until January 2, 1490, when Bobadil del Chico placed the keys of that beautiful city in the hands of the Catholic Monarchs.”)
^Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (Cambridge University Press, 2007) p.61 ISBN 9780521770651
^Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, Tibet. A Political History (Yale University Press, 1967) p.88.
^Rodrigues Oliveira, Ana (2010). Rainhas medievais de Portugal: Dezassete mulheres, duas dinastias, quatro séculos de História [Medieval Queens of Portugal: Seventeen women, two dynasties, four centuries of history] (in Portuguese). Lisbon: A esfera dos livros. p. 536. ISBN 978-989-626-261-7.
^François Guizot (translated by Robert Black), The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789,
Volume 2 (London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1884) p.521
^ abPalmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^Szakály, Ferenc (1981). “A középkori magyar állam virágzása és bukása, 1301–1526: 1490–1526 [Flourishing and Fall of Medieval Hungary, 1301–1526: 1490–1526]”. In Solymosi, László (ed.). Magyarország történeti kronológiája, I: a kezdetektől 1526-ig [Historical Chronology of Hungary, Volume I: From the Beginning to 1526] (in Hungarian). Akadémiai Kiadó. p. 320. ISBN 963-05-2661-1.
^Crispin Twitchett, Denis; W. Mote, Frederick; King Fairbank, John (1998). The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521243339.
