March 2 » The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
March 26 » William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
July 6 » Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
July 22 » Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
August 29 » Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
December 5 » Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.
January 23 » The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
February 14 » Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
March 21 » On the day of his execution in Oxford, former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine."
June 27 » The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
November 5 » Second Battle of Panipat: Fought between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and forces of Muslim Emperor Akbar.
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