1488

Events

• February 3 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, at the tip of Africa becoming the first known European to travel this far south.
• Battle of St.Aubin-du-Cormier . Troops loyal to King Charles VIII of France defeat rebel forces led by the Dukes of Orleans and Brittany in the main engagement of the Mad War .
• James IV succeeds his father James III as King of Scotland.
• Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford takes possession of Cardiff Castle.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti becomes apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio.

Births

• Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (d. 1568)
• Rabbi Yosef Karo, Jewish scholar (d. 1575)
• Sebastian Münster, scholar, cartographer, cosmographer (d. 1592)
• Ursula Southeil, prophetess (conjectural date) (d. 1561)

Deaths

• June 11 - James III of Scotland
• September 9 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)

See also

• The numbers 14 88 are sometimes used as a code to express a racialist message.