1482

This page relates to the year 1482 Calendrier Julien.

Events

January 21st: Construction of the castle of Saõ Jorge to Elmina in Guinea, of which all the elements are transported of Lisbon. It confirms the Portuguese monopoly on the trade of Black Africa (Or). The Portuguese colonize the Côte of Gold (Ghana) in Africa.

the Portuguese export more than one ton of gold per annum of Elmina. They exchange the gold of Akan against Esclave S razziés on the coasts of the gulf of Bénin. They trade with the empire of the Mali by the Gambia and buy gold, gum and the skins which they resell in the African Mediterranean against horses, fabrics and money.

Diego Caõ, on the way towards Congo, comes into contact with the king of the Bénin, which tells him that it sends tributes to his suzerain Ogamé, of which the kingdom and at one year of walk inside Africa. In exchange, Ogamé forwards to him of the gifts of which some carry the sign of the cross. This account reinforces the myth of the Prêtre Jean.
the Portuguese under the control of Diego Cão explore the river Congo to the surroundings of current the Matadi and contact the kingdom of Kongo.
Diego Caõ returns in connection with the king (Manicongo) of the country, Nzinga Nkuwu (death in 1507), whose authority seems wide on the majority of the people of the group Kongo.
Diego Caõ discovers the roads of Luanda in Angola, occupied by the kingdom of Ndongo, vassal of the Manikongo. Luanda is yielded to the Portugal and will become the center of the draft bound for the Brésil.

the kingdom of Ndongo extends in current Angola. The sovereign (Ngola, from where the name of Angola), enjoys a certain authority, in spite of the frequent incursions of the vassal tribes of Congo.
In the east of Ndongo extends two powerful chefferies, those of Lunda and Luba whose sovereigns have a common origin. Following tribal wars, part of these tribes would have emigrated towards south-east in the area of the Monomotapa.

Mathias Corvin, king of Hungary, breaks the armistice of 1481 following the refusal of the emperor Frederic III to modify the article of the treaty of Sopron of 1463 expect that only the legitimate heirs to Mathias could gird the crown of Hungary.
Vlad IV, wire naturalness of Vlad Dracul in exile for 27 years, has been installed on the Wallachian throne with the assistance of Etienne de Moldavie, on the request for Mathias Corvin (fine in 1495).
Russian Embassy of Theodore Kuristyne in Hungary to set up an alliance directed against the Poland and the Lithuania.

March 27th: Philippe Ier the Beautiful (1478 - 1506) becomes sovereign Netherlands under the regency of Maximilien of Austria (fine in 1494).
May: Beginning of the War of Ferrare (fine in 1484).
July 6th: Richard III, duke of Gloucester, seizes the crown of England, with the damage of its two nephews, whom it had made lock up, and which it made perish in their prison.
August 21st: Roberto Malatesta demolishes the Neapolitan troops with the battle of Campo Morto, close to Velletri.
August 30th: Guillaume of the Mark, called the “ Wild boar of the Ardennes ”, assassinates the prince-bishop of Liege, Louis de Bourbon; it is the beginning of the revolt which it will lead to Liege, in favor of Louis XI. (end in 1485).
September 22nd: Beginning of the reign of Charles Ier of Savoy (fine in 1489).
December 23rd: Treated of Arras. The Duchy of Burgundy and the Picardy are yielded to Louis XI of France. Maximilien of Austria obtains the Franche-Comté and the Netherlands. Marriage of the dolphin Charles and Marguerite, girl of Maximilien, whose Artois and Franche-Comté will form the dowry (cancelled in 1491).

nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
Foundation of Santa Fe, Andalusia, with ten kilometers in the west of Grenade, by the catholic kings who install their military camping there to put an end to the reconquest.
Renewal of the Enquiry in Spain under Large Inquisiteur Torquemada.

Publication of the Platonic Theology (1469 - 1474) of Marsile Ficin, study on the immortality of the heart.
Canonization of Holy Bonaventure by Sixth IV.
the painter Florentin Sandro Botticelli paints the Naissance of Venus .
the preacher Savonarole sows agitation in Florence by a sharp criticism of manners of its contemporaries.

Léonard de Vinci enters to the service of Ludovic Sforza, duke of Milan, for which it deals of engineering, work Hydraulique S, poliorcetic, of architecture and town planning.

Bad harvests in France. Problems of subsistence.
Apogée of the tax puncture of Louis XI, which reaches 5,4 million books, is 130 tons of fine money.
the duke of Ferrare decides to establish saltworks with Comacchio to circumvent the Venetian monopoly. All Italy unites itself to support it.

March 27th: Marie of Burgundy, the continuations of a fall of horse.
May 15th: Paolo Toscanelli, astronomer Florentin, author of a chart affirming that the the Indies are accessible by the Occident.
May 31st: Jean de Malestroit, baron of Derval, great chamberlain of Brittany.
September 10th: Frederic III of Montefeltro, one of most famous the Condottieri of the Rebirth, duke of Urbin of 1444 until its death (° June 7th 1422).
September 22nd: Philibert Ier of Savoy

Hugo Van der Goes, Flemish painter, with the monastery of Red-Cloister, meadows of Brussels (born v. 1440).

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