Events in History
Event of Interest
Jan 9 1st sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
- Jan 12 Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily
- Jan 16 Christopher Columbus leaves the New World and sets sail for Spain
- Jan 19 France cedes Roussillon & Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona
- Mar 15 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World
- Apr 15 -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella
- May 4 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain and Portugal
- May 23 King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis
- Aug 19 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I becomes Archduke of Austria
- Sep 9 Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.
- Sep 24 Christopher Columbus embarks on his 2nd expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships
- Nov 3 Christopher Columbus 'discovers' the island of Dominica, which was originally inhabited by the Kalinago
- Nov 11 Explorer Christopher Columbus discovers Saba
- Nov 19 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
- Dec 23 Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
Birthdays in History
- Mar 15 Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France
- Jun 5 Justus Jonas, German Protestant theologian and reformer, born in Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany (d. 1555)
- Sep 28 Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and litterateur, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1543)
- Oct 14 Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
- Nov 11 Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
Paracelsus
Nov 11 Paracelsus, Swiss physician and alchemist (Zinc, Laudanum), born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland (d. 1541)
Paracelsus
- Nov 12 Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)