Year 1486 (MCDLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday. Events January–December January 18 – King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York are married, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York, after the Wars of the Roses. February 16 – Archduke Maximilian I of Habsburg is elected King of the Romans at Frankfurt (crowned April 9 at Aachen). February 18 – Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is born in the town of Nadia, West Bengal, India, just after sunset. He is regarded as an incarnation, or avatar, of Lord Krsna, and later comes to inaugurate the sankirtana movement, or the chanting of the Holy Names of the Lord. This chanting, or mantra meditation, is first brought to the United States in 1965, by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. April 21 – The adoption of the Sentència Arbitral de Guadalupe ends the War of the Remences, in the Principality of Catalonia. Date unknown Tízoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies. Some sources suggest that he was poisoned, others that he was the victim of "sorcery" or illness. He is succeeded by his brother Āhuitzotl. Sigismund, Archduke of Tyrol, issues Europe's first large silver coin, the guldengroschen, which will later become the thaler. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola returns to Florence, and writes Oration on the Dignity of Man. The Medici giraffe arrives in Florence. Johann Reuchlin begins studying the Hebrew language. The first written use of the word football to describe the ball. Births January 6 – Martin Agricola, German Renaissance composer and music theorist (d. 1556) February 10 – George of the Palatinate, German nobleman; Bishop of Speyer (1513–1529) (d. 1529) February 18 – Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali ascetic and monk (d. 1534) July 2 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1570) July 16 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530) July 25 – Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (1503–1520), then Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1520–1547) (d. 1547) July 28 – Pieter Gillis, French philosopher (d. 1533) August 3 – Imperia Cognati, Italian courtesan (d. 1512) August 23 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566) September 14 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German astrologer and alchemist (d. 1535) September 20 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VII of England (d. 1502) October 10 – Charles III, Duke of Savoy (d. 1553) November 13 – Johann Eck, German Scholastic theologian and defender of Catholicism during the