What is 1479?
{{Year nav|1479}} {{Year in various calendars|1479}} {{Year article header|1479}} == Events == * [[January 20]] – [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|Ferdinand II]] becomes king of [[Aragon]] and rules together with his wife [[Isabella of Castile|Isabella]], [[Kings of Castile|queen of Castile]] over most of the [[Iberian peninsula]]. Together they take over [[Granada]] in [[1492]], ending 800 years of [[Moors|Moorish]] rule. * [[January 25]] – [[Treaty of Istanbul]] between [[Ottoman Empire]] and [[Republic of Venice]], in which Venice agrees to give land to the Ottomans and pay them 10,000 ducats a year. * [[August 7]] – [[Battle of Guinegate]] – A French army sent to invade the Netherlands is defeated by [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian of Austria]]. * [[September 4]] – [[Treaty of Alcáçovas]] ends War of Castilian Succession. * [[October 13]] – [[Battle of Kenyérmező]] – The [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungarian]] army led by [[Pál Kinizsi]] and [[István Báthori]] defeats the [[Ottoman Turk]] army in [[Transsylvania]], [[Hungary]]. * [[Christopher Columbus]], a sailor and trader in the Genoese community in [[Portugal]], marries [[Felipa Perestrelo Moniz]] and receives as [[dowry]] her dead father's maps and papers charting the seas and winds around the [[Madeira Islands]] and other [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese island colonies]]. [[Category:1479| ]]