1495

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1492 1493 1494 - 1495 - 1496 1497 1498

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s

align="center" | Centuries:
14th century - 15th century - 16th century

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 Hernandez Gonzalo de Cordoba 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 Stuart, Seigneur d'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 are beaten back at Vyborg.
Founding of the Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire.

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