1493
This article is about the year 1493. For the number, see 1493 (number). For the history book by Charles C. Mann, see 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1460s 1470s 1480s – 1490s – 1500s 1510s 1520s |
| Years: | 1490 1491 1492 – 1493 – 1494 1495 1496 |
| 1493 by topic |
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| 1493 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1493 MCDXCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2246 |
| Armenian calendar | 942 ԹՎ ՋԽԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6243 |
| Bengali calendar | 900 |
| Berber calendar | 2443 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Hen. 7 – 9 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2037 |
| Burmese calendar | 855 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7001–7002 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4189 or 4129 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4190 or 4130 |
| Coptic calendar | 1209–1210 |
| Discordian calendar | 2659 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1485–1486 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5253–5254 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1549–1550 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1415–1416 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4594–4595 |
| Holocene calendar | 11493 |
| Igbo calendar | 493–494 |
| Iranian calendar | 871–872 |
| Islamic calendar | 898–899 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiō 2 (明応２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1493 MCDXCIII |
| Korean calendar | 3826 |
| Minguo calendar | 419 before ROC 民前419年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2035–2036 |
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Year 1493 (MCDXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
Events
January–December
- January 19 – Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to Ferdinand of Aragon.
- March 15 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his first voyage of discovery.
- May 4 – In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI decrees that all lands discovered 100 leagues or further west of the Azores are Spanish.
- August 19 – Maximilian I succeeds his father, Frederick III, as Holy Roman Emperor.
- September 9 – Battle of Krbava Field in southern Croatia: Forces of the Ottoman Empire defeat those of the Kingdom of Croatia.
- September 26 – Pope Alexander VI issues the bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera
- September 29 – Christopher Columbus leaves Cádiz on his second voyage of exploration.
- November 19 – Columbus lands on the coast of the island of Borinquen, which he renames San Juan (modern-day Puerto Rico).
- England imposes sanctions on Burgundy for supporting Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the English throne.[1]
Births
- January 25 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1530)
- March 15 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
- June 5 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
- September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. c. 1545)
- October 14 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
- November 11 (or December 17) – Paracelsus, born Philippus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541)
- November 12 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1560)
- date unknown
- Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (d. 1541)
- Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
- Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (d. 1580)
- probable
- Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1560)
- Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (d. 1546)
Deaths
- May – Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (b. 1450)
- May 10 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. c. 1433)
- June 14 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (b. 1454)
- August 19 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
- September 9 – Mirko Derenčin, Croatian leader
- October 22 – James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
- November 6 – Andrey Bolshoy, Russian prince (b. 1446)
- date unknown
- James Blount, English soldier
- Martín Alonso Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. c. 1441)
- Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu
References
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British Askia Muhammad becomes ruler of Songhai History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.