the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Robert Henryson's cycle The Morall Fabillis probably composed in the 1480s; earliest datable...

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Scottish "romantic biographical" poem in Middle Scots, probably created some time in the late 1470s or early to mid-1480s (in the decade up through 1477) John...

Autodidactus by Ibn al-Nafis (1270s) The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian (1480s) The Puruṣaparīkṣā by Vidyapati The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan (1678)...

Cantilena, oldest known Maltese text c.1480s – Robert Henryson, cycle The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian in Scotland 1473–1480 – Maladhar Basu, ''Sri...

all the 1470s, which saw his reputation soar. The 1480s were his most successful decade, the one in which his large mythological paintings were completed...

Robert Ricart begins writing The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar in Bristol, England. 1480s (approximate date) – Scottish makar Robert Henryson writes The...

of Maximillian of Austria. February 3 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming...

confidant. His later poetry, including La Giostra, glorified his patrons. He used his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s, as an introduction to...

from Geneva in about 1481, followed by two from the city of Lyons in the 1480s and four from Paris in the 1490s. An edition from Lyons in 1503 is illustrated...

in the court to establish a painting studio in the recently annexed capital of the empire Istanbul. This project seems to have succeeded in the 1480s...

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people several times, including on four heraldic shield engravings of the 1480s which depict wild men holding the coat of arms of the print's patrons. Each...

scholastic doctrine, such as in his unbridled praise for poetry. Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse". The Apocalypse of...

started to be required in civil service examinations in the 1480s. Since mastery of the form was a requirement for success in the examinations, commercial...

year of the 1480s decade. March 26 – William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints his translation of Aesop's Fables in London. May 30...

early 1480s, Ava regularly faced rebellions in its vassal regions whenever a new king came to power. In the 1480s and 1490s, the Prome Kingdom in the south...

shower or air burst over Qingyang in Ming dynasty China, said to have caused casualties. July 4 – Defeat of John Corvinus in the battle of Bonefield July 13...

one important source in early feminism. In the 1480s, Bartolomeo Goggio argued the superiority of women in his "De laudibus mulierum" [On the Merits of...

Skelton studied at the University of Oxford in the early 1480s and was advanced to the degree of "poet laureate" in 1488, when he joined the court of King...

Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, and were in turn an inspiration for Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, painted in the 1480s. Georgius Dartona made the first...

Chanticleir and the Foxe, the third poem in his Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian, composed in or around the 1480s. Later, the poet John Dryden adapted...

Women. In 1481, the English William Caxton printed The Historie of Reynart the Foxe, which was translated from Van den vos Reynaerde. Also in the 1480s, the...

incunabulum written in the Serbian recension of Church Slavonic, and the first book printed in Cyrillic in Southeast Europe, is completed in Cetinje. January...

is published in Foligno. June 20-year-old Leonardo da Vinci is admitted as a master in his own right to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke in Florence. (approximate...

proposal. In the 1480s, Columbus and his brother proposed a plan to reach the East Indies by sailing west. Columbus supposedly wrote to Toscanelli in 1481...

calendar) of the Julian calendar. 1492 is considered to be a significant year in the history of the West, Europe, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Spain, and...

Ferdinand of Aragon. March 1 – Martín Alonso Pinzón returns to the city of Bayona in Spain from the voyage of discovery, sending the first notice about the discovery...

priest Ikkyū chose to live in Sakai because of its free atmosphere. The first reliable account of the city is dated to the 1480s and contains publicly issued...

Venice enacts the Venetian Patent Statute, one of the earliest patent systems in the world. New and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated...