• Year 1490 (MCDXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 4 – Anne of Brittany announces...
    7 KB (818 words) - 11:43, 24 May 2024
  • The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 1490 kHz: 1490 AM is a Regional (Class B) outside the coterminous 48 United States (Alaska, Hawaii...
    25 KB (103 words) - 16:20, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526)
    first king of Hungary without dynastic ancestry was Matthias Corvinus (1458–1490), who led several successful military campaigns and also became the King...
    55 KB (6,341 words) - 10:46, 29 May 2024
  • 1490s BC (redirect from 1490 BC)
    The 1490s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1499 BC to December 31, 1490 BC. Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC–1492 BC). 1500 BC: Coalescence...
    2 KB (206 words) - 23:13, 25 July 2023
  • Diarmaid MacCulloch. It is a survey of the European Reformation between 1490 and 1700. It won the 2003 Wolfson History Prize (UK) and the 2004 National...
    3 KB (242 words) - 08:52, 19 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for William Carey (courtier)
    William Carey (c. 1495 – 22 June 1528) was a courtier and favourite of King Henry VIII of England. He served the king as a Gentleman of the Privy chamber...
    11 KB (1,144 words) - 15:33, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Negev
    Negev (redirect from 1504 1490 1489)
    The Negev (/ˈnɛɡɛv/ NEG-ev; Hebrew: הַנֶּגֶב, romanized: hanNégev) or Negeb (Arabic: ٱلنَّقَب, romanized: an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of...
    59 KB (5,894 words) - 19:48, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christianity
    Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, where he preached the First Crusade. Illustration by Jean Colombe from the Passages d'outremer, c. 1490....
    297 KB (31,380 words) - 14:06, 15 August 2024
  • meteor shower or air burst that took place near Qingyang in March or April 1490. The area was at the time part of Shaanxi, but is now in Gansu province....
    9 KB (937 words) - 13:52, 2 January 2024
  • 1490s in music (redirect from 1490 in music)
    This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the 1490s. 1490 January – Emperor Maximilian I writes a letter of recommendation for Jacobus...
    3 KB (285 words) - 20:17, 16 June 2024
  • Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and...
    6 KB (589 words) - 19:45, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Netherlands
    Count of Holland was fought over in the Hook and Cod Wars between 1350 and 1490. The Cod faction consisted of the more progressive cities, while the Hook...
    209 KB (20,176 words) - 13:37, 15 August 2024
  • completed. Church of St. Valentin, Kiedrich in Hesse (Germany) is completed. 1490 Bara Gumbad in Delhi is built. Probable completion of rebuilding of Sherborne...
    3 KB (232 words) - 21:23, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1490 Limpopo
    1490 Limpopo, provisional designation 1936 LB, is a carbonaceous–metallic asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 18 kilometers...
    15 KB (935 words) - 19:50, 25 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Christopher Columbus
    "Columbus map", drawn c. 1490 in the Lisbon mapmaking workshop of Bartholomew and Christopher Columbus...
    193 KB (21,609 words) - 13:57, 15 August 2024
  • Events from the year 1490 in Ireland. Lord: Henry VII Thaddeus McCarthy appointed Bishop of Cork and Cloyne "Holdings: Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy, Bishop...
    527 bytes (33 words) - 19:32, 23 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Poland
    One of the most distinguished paintings in Poland is Lady with an Ermine (1490) by Leonardo da Vinci. Internationally renowned Polish artists include Jan...
    289 KB (23,628 words) - 08:38, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Britain
    A 1490 Italian reconstruction of the relevant map of Ptolemy who combined the lines of roads and of the coasting expeditions during the first century of...
    80 KB (7,814 words) - 21:39, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Matthias Corvinus
    Matthias Corvinus (category 1490 deaths)
    Czech: Matyáš Korvín; 23 February 1443 – 6 April 1490) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I. After conducting several military...
    95 KB (11,300 words) - 07:08, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vitruvian Man
    Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1490. Inspired by the writings of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, the drawing...
    33 KB (3,431 words) - 15:38, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Shakespeare
    Richard Shakespeare (1490–before 1561) (unknown) (unknown) Robert Arden (died 1556) John Shakespeare (c. 1531–1601) Mary Arden (c. 1537–1608) (unknown)...
    120 KB (12,087 words) - 11:26, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Singing
    Ercole de' Roberti: Concert, c. 1490...
    58 KB (7,578 words) - 15:02, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kyrgyzstan
    Potential High-Quality Cropland and the Way to the Future". Agronomy. 11 (8): 1490. doi:10.3390/agronomy11081490. "Kyrgyzstan is one of the most vulnerable...
    136 KB (13,517 words) - 13:00, 17 August 2024
  • 1490s in art (redirect from 1490 in art)
    World captivates the artistic imagination of both artists and the public. 1490 – July 13: John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity...
    20 KB (1,913 words) - 04:27, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Isaac Newton
    Brackenbury (June 1483–1485) House of Tudor (1485–1603) Sir Giles Daubeney (1485–1490) Sir Bartholomew Reed and Robert Fenrother (1492–1498) 4th Baron Mountjoy...
    144 KB (14,723 words) - 22:52, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hungary
    king of medieval Hungary was the Renaissance king Matthias Corvinus (1458–1490), son of John Hunyadi. His election was the first time that a member of the...
    210 KB (20,386 words) - 05:22, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Depression
    Unemployment Sahm rule Commercial revolution (1000–1760) Great Slump (1430–1490) Slump of 1706 Great Frost of 1709 1st Industrial Revolution (1760–1840)...
    180 KB (21,070 words) - 10:55, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scotland
    1475 1476 1477 1478 1479 1480 1481 1482 1483 1484 1485 1486 1487 1488 1489 1490 1491 1492 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497 1498 1499 1500 16th century 1501 1502...
    267 KB (24,370 words) - 00:19, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Slovakia
    Kingdom's third university, in Pressburg (Bratislava), but it was closed in 1490 after his death. Hussites also settled in the region after the Hussite Wars...
    171 KB (15,613 words) - 20:52, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for British Raj
    Kingdom (1470–1842) Deccan sultanates (1490–1596)  – Ahmadnagar Sultanate (1490–1636)  – Berar sultanate (1490–1574)  – Bidar Sultanate (1492–1619)  –...
    266 KB (28,816 words) - 11:09, 12 August 2024