1493 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. Events Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan De Galba is published. ... // Events December 6 - King Charles VIII marries Anne de Bretagne, thus incorporating Brittany into the kingdom of France. ... 1492 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1494 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1495 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1496 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s - 1460s - 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s Years: 1460 1461 1462 1463 1464 1465 1466 1467 1468 1469 Events and Trends Sonni Ali, first Songhai king, conquers many of his African neighbors. ... Events and Trends battle of Avenches 1476 Prominent Persons Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician A map of Europe in the 1470s. ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1430s 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s Years: 1480 1481 1482 1483 1484 1485 1486 1487 1488 1489 Events and Trends Categories: 1480s ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s Years: 1490 1491 1492 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497 1498 1499 Events and Trends 1490: Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell & Martí Joan De Galba is published. ... ---- Events and Trends Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa Spanish arrive in present-day Gulf of Mexico External links 1500-1524 Events 1500-1509 Events Categories: 1500s ... ---- Events and Trends Template:Stub:hist Categories: 1510s ... ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... This is the calendar for any common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A). ... The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. ...

Events

• January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World.
• March 15 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
• July 28 - Great fire in Moscow.
• September 9 - Battle of Krbava field between defending Croatian nobles and invading Ottoman Turk forces.
• November 19 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
• December 23 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.

January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Christopher Columbus (October 30, 1451? – 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492 under the flag of Castile. ... Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, c. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... Christopher Columbus (October 30, 1451? – 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492 under the flag of Castile. ... World map showing the Americas The Americas commonly refers to the landmass in the Western Hemisphere consisting of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. ... July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: (help· info)) is the capital of Russia and the countrys principal political, economic, financial, educational and transportation center, located on the river Moskva. ... September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... After the fall of the Bosnian Kingdom into the Ottoman hands in 1463, the southern and central parts of the Kingdom of Croatia remained unprotected, the defence of which was left to croatian gentry who kept smaller troops in the fortified border areas at their own expense. ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Christopher Columbus (October 30, 1451? – 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492 under the flag of Castile. ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... Hartmann Schedel, a german humanist and historian (* February 13, 1440 in Nuremberg, † November 28, 1514 in Nuremberg), was one of the first cartographers to make use of the printing press. ... Depiction of God creating the world Juvenal The Nuremberg Chronicle is one of the best documented early printed books. ...

Births

• June 5 - Justus Jonas, German protestant reformer (died 1555)
• September 28 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet
• October 14 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (died 1568)
• November 12 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (died 1560)
• Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat
• Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and Lord Chancellor
• Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (died 1541)
• Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (died 1573)
• Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (died 1541)
• Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (died 1580)
• François Rabelais, French writer

June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... Justus Jonas (5 June 1493 - 9 October 1555) was a German Protestant reformer. ... Events Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland February 2 - Diet of Augsburg begins February 4 - John Rogers becomes first Protestant martyr in England February 9 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake May 23 - Paul IV becomes Pope. ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (272nd in leap years). ... Agnolo Firenzuola (28 September 1493-ca. ... October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Shimazu Tadayoshi (島津忠良; October 14, 1493-December 31, 1568) is a daimyo who ruled Satsuma Province. ... Events March 23 - Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. ... November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ... Hercules and Cacus. ... Events February 27 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland The first tulip bulb was brought from Turkey to the Netherlands. ... Jean du Bellay (c. ... Stephen Gardiner (c. ... Simon Grynaeus (1493- August 1, 1541), German scholar and theologian of the Reformation, son of Jacob Gryner, a Swabian peasant, was born in 1493 at Vehringen, in Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. ... Events The first official translation of the entire Bible in Swedish February 12 - Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile. ... Takeda Nobutora (武田信虎)(1493-1573) was a Japanese feudal lord (daimyo) who controlled the Province of Kai, and fought in a number of battles of the Sengoku period. ... Events January - articles of Warsaw Confederation signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland. ... Paracelsus Paracelsus (November 11 or December 17, 1493 - September 24, 1541) was a famous alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. ... Events The first official translation of the entire Bible in Swedish February 12 - Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile. ... Matsudaira Shigeyoshi (松平重吉; 1493- 1580) Also known as Jirōzaemon (次郎左右衛門). Head of the Nōmi-Matsudaira (能見松平), a branch of the main Matsudaira house which later became the Tokugawa shogual family. ... Events March 1 - Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. ... François Rabelais (ca. ...

Deaths

• May 10 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician
• June 14 - Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (born 1454)
• August 19 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1415)
• James Blount, English soldier
• James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
• Martin Alonzo Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer
• Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (born 1450)
• Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu