3rd February » Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
11th June » Battle of Sauchieburn: fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the King.
Famous Birthdays in 1488
6th January » Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540)
19th March » Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop (d. 1544)