Major Events
- Feb 16 Maximilian I is elected King of the Romans at Frankfurt
- Apr 21 Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe (Arbitration Sentence of Guadalupe) proclaimed by Spanish King Ferdinand II of Aragon, freeing Catalan remensa peasants
- May 1 Christopher Columbus proposes his plan to search for a western route to India in an audience with Spanish monarch, Isabella I. Full support is granted 3 years later, in 1489
Born in 1486
- Jan 6 Martin Agricola [Sohr], German Renaissance composer, cantor, and music theorist, born in Ĺwiebodzin, Bohemian Silesia (now Poland) (d. 1556)
- Feb 18 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, inspired Chaitanya movement, born in Navadwip, India (d. 1534)
- Jul 14 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (Recollets), born in Florence (d. 1530)
- Aug 23 Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, born in Vipava, Slovenia (d. 1566)
- Sep 14 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, physician and theologian, born in Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1535)
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Who Died in 1486
- Mar 11 Albert III Achilles [Albrecht III], Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71
- Mar 30 Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Aug 26 Ernst I, Elector of Saxony (1464-86), dies at 45
Leonardo da Vinci