1504
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1501 1502 1503 – 1504 – 1505 1506 1507 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1504 MDIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2257 |
| Armenian calendar | 953 ԹՎ ՋԾԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6254 |
| Bengali calendar | 911 |
| Berber calendar | 2454 |
| English Regnal year | 19 Hen. 7 – 20 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2048 |
| Burmese calendar | 866 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7012–7013 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4200 or 4140 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4201 or 4141 |
| Coptic calendar | 1220–1221 |
| Discordian calendar | 2670 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1496–1497 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5264–5265 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1560–1561 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1426–1427 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4605–4606 |
| Holocene calendar | 11504 |
| Igbo calendar | 504–505 |
| Iranian calendar | 882–883 |
| Islamic calendar | 909–910 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunki 4 / Eishō 1 (永正元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1504 MDIV |
| Korean calendar | 3837 |
| Minguo calendar | 408 before ROC 民前408年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2046–2047 |
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Bay of Naples.
September 8: Michelangelo's David.
Year 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 1 – French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.
- January 21 – After the death of Sten Sture the Elder on December 14 the year before, Svante Nilsson is elected new Regent of Sweden.
- January 31 – Treaty of Lyon: France cedes Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon who becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
- February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse this night to convince Jamaican tribesmen to provide him with supplies.
- April 1 – English guilds subject to state control.
- April 23 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, routes troops to Bavaria.
July–December
- September 8 – Michelangelo's sculpture of David is erected in Florence.
- September 22 – A settled engagement is arranged between Karel of Luxembourg and Claudia the Beaujeu.
- September 22 – Treaty of Blois: Philip I of Castile, Maximilian I and Louis XII agree terms.
- October 12 – Isabella I of Castile signs her testament.
- November 7 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage, during which he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
- November 26 – Isabella I of Castile, Catholic Queen of Castile and Aragon, dies, ending her patronage for Columbus. The Crown of Castile passes to her daughter Joanna.
Date unknown
- Babur besieges and captures Kabull.
- Islamization of the Sudan region: A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Sultanate of Sennar.
- Sheikh Ahmad, final leader of the Great Horde, is last heard of as a Lithuanian prisoner at Vilnius.
- Juan de la Cosa begins his first independent voyage, to the Isthmus of Panama.
- In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli become involved in a scheme to divert the Arno river, cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, fails to follow da Vinci’s design, and the project is a major failure.
- Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.
- Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.
- Matthias Grünewald paints a Crucifixion.
- The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.
- Raphael paints The Marriage of the Virgin, which exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art.
Births
- January 1 – Caspar Creuziger, German humanist (d. 1548)
- January 3 – Gian Girolamo Albani, Italian cardinal (d. 1591)
- January 17 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
- January 28 – Anna II, Abbess of Quedlinburg, German noblewoman who reigned from 1516 until her death (d. 1574)
- February 3 – Scipione Rebiba, Catholic cardinal (d. 1577)
- March 31 – Guru Angad, Religious leader (d. 1552)
- April 12 – Alessandro Campeggio, Italian cardinal (d. 1554)
- April 30 – Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter (d. 1570)
- May 5 – Stanislaus Hosius, Catholic cardinal (d. 1579)
- May 29 – Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (d. 1573)
- June 24 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (d. 1565)
- July 18 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
- August 1 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Danish princess (d. 1547)
- August 6 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574)
- September 4 – John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Prince of Anahlt-Dessau (1516–1544) and Anhalt-Zerbst (1544–1551) (d. 1551)
- September 20 – Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1559)
- October 29 – Shin Saimdang, calligraphist and noted poet (d. 1551)
- November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573)
- November 13 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1567)
- December 31 – Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1538)
- date unknown
- Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي), author of Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Tudor nobleman and politician (d. 1553)
- Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (d. 1528)
- Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian (d. 1568)
- Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (d. 1556)
- probable – Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1568)
Deaths
- April – Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (b. 1457)
- June 19 – Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
- July 2 – Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
- July 29 – Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435)
- August – Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (b. 1454)
- September 9 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), astrologer (b. 1467)
- September 10 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
- November 26 – Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
- December 21 – Berthold von Henneberg, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
- date unknown
- Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Spanish author
- Choe Bu, Korean official and venturer to China (b. 1454)