1504

Events

• January 1 - French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
• January 31 - France cedes Naples to Aragon.
• February 29 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowldege of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes his sculpture of David - August 8 it is erected in Florence.
• Moldavia, Stephan IIIrd the great fights against Turkey and Poland.
• Baber besieges and captures Kabul.
• Ferdinand II of Aragon becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
• Christopher Columbus return to spain from his fourth voyage where he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
• Aldo Manuzio publishes Demosthenes.

Births

• January 17 - Pope Pius V
• Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss reformer.
• Matthew Parker, becomes Archbishop of Canterbury in 1559.
• Francesco Primaticcio, italian painter, architect and sculptor.

Deaths

• November 26 - Isabella of Castile, Queen of Castile, the wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the mother of Catherine of Aragon, and the patron of Christopher Columbus.
• Philibert II of Savoy, Duke of Savoy
• Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Astronomer and teacher of Nicolaus Copernicus
• Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby

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