1480

Events 1480s – Caxton’s Aesop’s Fables

 Events  1481: Spanish Inquisition begins in practice with the first auto-da-fé. The Aztec Calendar Stone or Sun Stone is carved. The village of Alhama de Granada in Spain is taken by Christian forces, starting the Granada War to expel the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula. Schreierstoren is erected in Amsterdam (from which Henry Hudson will set sail on April 4, 1609, on the vessel Halve Maen, to bring him to the harbor of New York and the Hudson River). William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints his translation of Aesop’s Fables in London. 1482: Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão becomes the first European to enter the Congo. 1483: The Jews are expelled from Andalusia. 1483: Pluto moves inside Neptune‘s orbit until July 23, 1503, according to modern orbital calculations. 1485: Matthias Corvinus of Hungary captured Vienna, Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor ran […]

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