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Events
January 20
-
Seville
in
Castile
is awarded exclusive right to trade with the New World.
April 21
-
Battle of Cerignola
.
Aragonese
forces under
Gonzalo Fernndez de Crdoba
defeat the
French
under the
Duc de Nemours
, who is killed. Considered to be the first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms.
May 10
-
Christopher Columbus
discovers the
Cayman Islands
and he names them
Las Tortugas
after the numerous
sea turtles
there.
May 13
- Capture of
Naples
by the Spanish.
August 8
- King
James IV of Scotland
marries
Margaret Tudor
, daughter of King
Henry VII of England
at
Holyrood Abbey
,
Edinburgh, Scotland
.
September 22
- Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini becomes
Pope Pius III
succeeding
Pope Alexander VI
, but dies on
October 18
.
December 29
-
Battle of the Garigliano
- Spanish forces under Cordoba defeat a French-Italian mercenary army under the Marquis of
Saluzzo
. The French forces withdraw to
Gaeta
.
Giuliano della Rovere becomes
Pope Julius II
succeeding
Pope Pius III
.
Leonardo da Vinci
starts work on the
Mona Lisa
.
Perpendicular style chapel added to
Westminster Abbey
.
Battle of Ruvo
-
French-Spanish Wars in Italy
.
Vasco da Gama
established
India
's first
Portuguese
fortress at
Cochin
.
Mariotto Albertinelli
paints his masterpiece, the "Visitation of the Virgin".
Births
March 10
-
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
August 12
-
Christian III of Denmark and Norway
(1503-
1559
)
Sir
Thomas Wyatt
a poet and Ambassador in the service of
Henry VIII
December 14
-
Nostradamus
(astrologer)
Robert Estienne
, printer in Paris, was the first to print the
Bible
divided into standard numbered verses
Parmigianino
, Italian painter and master draftsman (+
1540
)
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
,
English
diplomat
(approximate date, +
1536
)
Deaths
February 11
-
Elizabeth of York
, Queen consort of King
Henry VII of England
(b.
1466
)
Margaret of York
sister of
Edward IV of England
June 30
-
Pierre d'Aubusson
, Grand Master of the
Knights of Rhodes
August 18
-
Pope Alexander VI
October 18
-
Pope Pius III
December 28
-
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici
, ruler of Florence (b.
1471
)
Andreas Proles, German
Augustinian
theologian
Lorenzo the Popolano, Lord of
Piombino
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