Events

• Baeda Maryam succeeds his father Zara Yaqob as Emperor of Ethiopia

Births

• Charles I of Savoy
• February 29 - Pope Paul III
• Juan del Encina , Spanish poet, dramatist and composer

Deaths

• February 3 - Johannes Gutenberg, publisher
• Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, Albania's national hero
• Gennadius II, Patriarch of Constantinople
• Zara Yaqob , Emperor of Ethiopia
• Joanot Martorell, author of Tirant lo Blanc