What is 1490?
{{Year nav|1490}} {{Year in various calendars|1490}} {{Year article header|1490}} == Events == * ''[[Tirant Lo Blanc]]'' by [[Joanot Martorell]], [[Martí Joan De Galba]] is published. * [[Yoshitane]] becomes [[Ashikaga Shogunate|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 [[Africa]]n kingdom of [[Kongo Empire|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]], [[Frisians|Frisian]] warlord and rebel (d. [[1523]]) == Deaths == [[Category:1490| ]]