1495
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| Centuries: | 14th century · 15th century · 16th century |
| Decades: | 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s |
| Years: | 1492 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497 1498 |
| 1495 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Gregorian calendar | 1495 MCDXCV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2248 |
| Armenian calendar | 944 ԹՎ ՋԽԴ |
| Chinese calendar | 4131/4191-12-5 (甲寅年十二月初五日) — to —
4132/4192-12-15(乙卯年十二月十五日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1487 – 1488 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5255 – 5256 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1550 – 1551 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1417 – 1418 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4596 – 4597 |
| Iranian calendar | 873 – 874 |
| Islamic calendar | 900 – 901 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Thai solar calendar | 2038 |
1495 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
[edit] Events
- February 22 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as Viceroy.
- May 26 - A Spanish army under Gonzalo de Córdoba lands in Calabria with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples.
- June 1 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
- June 28 - Battle of Seminara. Cordoba and Ferrante are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny.
- July 6 - Battle of Fornovo - The French army under King Charles secures its retreat from Italy by defeating a combined Milanese-Venetian force under Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua.
- December 25 - Second Battle of Acentejo - The Spanish crush native forces of the island of Tenerife, leading to the subjugation of this last bastion of resistance in the Canary Islands.
- Russia invades Sweden through Karelia, but the Russian troops are beaten back at Vyborg.
- Founding of the Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire.
- Henry VII of England commissions world's first dry dock at Portsmouth
- University of Aberdeen founded by Bishop William Elphinstone
[edit] Births
- March 6 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)
- April 16 - Petrus Apianus, German humanist (died 1557)
- November 21 - John Bale, English churchman (died 1563)
- December 5 - Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
- Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (died 1541)
- Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (died 1540)
- Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (died 1570)
- Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (died 1545)
- John of God, Spanish friar and saint (died 1550)
- Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer (died 1560)
- Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (died 1568)
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (born 1428)
- May 31 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (born 1415)
- September 14 - Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (born 1492)
- October 25 - King John II of Portugal (born 1455)
- December 18 - King Alphonso II of Naples (born 1448)
- December 21 - Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (born c1431)
- Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (born 1459)
