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] Columbus meets with the Spanish monarchs Isabella I and Ferdinand II in Barcelona
- 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
- Nov 27 Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus's orders.
- 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 courtier and poet, born in Bergamo, Venice (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)