1482

Years: 1479 1480 1481 - 1482 - 1483 1484 1485

Decades: 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s

Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

Events

• Portuguese fortify Fort Elmina on the Gold Coast
• Tizoc rules the Aztecs
• Diogo Cão, a Portuguese navigator, becomes the first European to sail up the Congo .
• Ivan III renounces the Mongol Khanate rule over Russia

Births

Deaths

• Diogo Gomez
• Hugo van der Goes
• William Worcester
• Della Robbia
• Sir John Lindsay of the Byres