Siege of Rhodes
The Knights Hospitaller repel Mehmed II's fleet
For almost three months the Knights of St John under Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson beat off the Ottoman assaults. The siege was lifted in August 1480; Rhodes fell only in 1522, to Suleiman the Magnificent.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1455–1487 Wars of the Roses — 25 years earlier
- 1469 Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella — 11 years earlier
- 1478 Spanish Inquisition established — 2 years earlier
- 1492 Fall of Granada — 12 years later
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — 14 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1469 Afanasy Nikitin's journey to India — 11 years earlier
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 2 years earlier
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — same year
Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 8 years later
Asia
- 1467–1477 Ōnin War — 13 years earlier
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — 18 years later
Americas
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 12 years later
- 1497 John Cabot reaches North America — 17 years later
Alive at the time
- Mehmed II (aged 48)
- Christopher Columbus (aged 29)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 28)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 7)
- Michelangelo (aged 5)
- Louis XI (aged 57)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 44)
- Ivan III (aged 40)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 29)
- Richard III (aged 28)