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Garmin Tech Center (台灣國際航電科技大樓) is the head office of Garmin (Asia) Corporation and located in the Xizhi District of New Taipei City, Taiwan. In 2010, Garmin opened a facility in Cary, North Carolina as part of the Research Triangle Park. [91] Garmin operates in several other countries besides the UK, USA, and Taiwan. [92]
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1490. King Matthias Corvinus Blessed Joanna. January 27 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shōgun (b. 1435) March 6 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458) April 6 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443) [56] May 12 – Joanna, Portuguese Roman Catholic blessed and regent (b. 1452) May 22 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (b. 1416)
March or April – 1490 Qingyang event, a presumed meteor shower or air burst over Qingyang in Ming dynasty China, said to have caused casualties. July 4 – Battle of Bonefield : John Corvinus is defeated by the Kingdom of Hungary.
Martellus world map (1490) The world map of Henricus Martellus Germanus (Heinrich Hammer), c. 1490, was remarkably similar to the terrestrial globe later produced by Martin Behaim in 1492, the Erdapfel. Both show heavy influences from Ptolemy, and both possibly derive from maps created around 1485 in Lisbon by Bartolomeo Columbus. Although ...
The Renaissance is in full swing during the 1490s, and Leonardo da Vinci is painting in realistic, chiaroscuro style. In music, many new musical styles are being created, including the motet and madrigal, replacing an emphasis on chanting (and simple melodies) with polyphony and homophony.