Rededication of the Templo Mayor
The Aztecs rededicate the pyramid of Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc
Under the tlatoani Ahuitzotl a new rebuilding of the Aztecs' great pyramid, with its twin shrines on top, was completed. Spanish chroniclers wrote of thousands of captives sacrificed at the festival, though historians consider the figures exaggerated.
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Europe
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- 1478 Spanish Inquisition established — 9 years earlier
- 1492 Fall of Granada — 5 years later
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — 7 years later
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Eastern Europe & Russia
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- Christopher Columbus (aged 36)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 35)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 14)
- Michelangelo (aged 12)
- Martin Luther (aged 4)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 51)
- Ivan III (aged 47)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 36)
- Amerigo Vespucci (aged 33)
- Henry VII (aged 30)