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1479 - Events

• January 20 - Ferdinand II ascends the throne of Aragon and rules together with his wife Isabella, queen of Castile over most of the Iberian peninsula. Together they conquer Granada in 1492 ending 800 years of Moorish rule.
• August 7 - Battle of Guinegate - A French army sent to invade the Netherlands is defeated by Maximilian of Austria
• October 13 - Battle of Kenyérmező - The Hungarian army led by Pál Kinizsi and István Báthori defeats the Ottoman Turk army in Transsylvania, Hungary
• Christopher Columbus - experienced mariner and successful trader in the thriving Genoese "ex-pat" community in Portugal, marries Felipa Perestrelo Moniz (Italian on her father's side) and receives no ordinary dowry: Her late father's maps and papers charting the seas and winds around the Madeira Islands and other Portuguese possessions in the Ocean Sea.

1479 - Births

• March 25 - Vasili III of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
• April 5 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (died 1574)
• June 14 - Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
• November 6 - Joanna of Castile, queen of Philip I of Castile (died 1555)
• Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (died 1552)
• Vallabhacharya, founder of the Vallabha sect of Hinduism (died 1531)
• Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (died 1522)

1479 - Deaths

• January 20 - King John II of Aragon (born 1397)
• Antonello da Messina, Italian painter
• James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton
• Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (born 1440)
• Antonio Rossellino, Italian sculptor

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