1484: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Events

• July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cao finds the mouth of Congo River
• December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger
• First cuirassier units (kyrissers) formed in Austria

Births

• January 1 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer
• Julius Caesar Scaliger, humanist scholar

Deaths

• August 12 - Pope Sixtus IV