< MCDLXXX = 1480 > Events in 1480 |22 February:|| ||Muslims
celebrate the Festival of Sacrifice on the tenth day of the
month Dhu al-Hijjah.| |6 March:|| ||The Kingdom of Castile
establishes probably the first Spanish colony on the island of
Gran Canaria.| |2 April:|| ||The resurrection of Jesus Christ is
celebrated Easter Sunday following the first full moon following
the spring equinox as fixed by the Council of Nicaea in 325.| |3
April:|| ||Jews celebrate Pesach for the next seven or eight
days.| |21 May:|| ||Seven weeks after Easter Christians
celebrate Pentecost, possibly since 68 AD.| |14 Augustus:||
||Munich sculptor Erasmus Grasser is paid for a set of sixteen
wooden Morris dancers, his first recorded commission, made to
decorate the “Tantzhaus”, now known as Altes Rathaus.| |23
September:|| ||Jews celebrate Yom Kippur since sunset last
night.| |4 November:|| ||The thirty days of Ramadan in the
Islamic year 885 begin at the first sighting of the lunar
crescent.| |4 December:|| ||Muslims celebrate the