1493

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1493 in poetry

1493 in other calendars

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

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 1 – Martín Alonso Pinzón returns to city of Bayona in Spain from the voyage of discovery, sending the first notice about the discovery to the Catholic Monarchs. Christopher Columbus was delayed by a storm in Azores
• March 15 – Christopher Columbus and Martín Alonso Pinzón return to Palos de la Frontera the original port in Spain from where they started the 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 2 – Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme, French cardinal (d. 1557)
• January 6 – Olaus Petri, clergyman (d. 1552)
• January 9 – Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Viceroy of Valencia, German noble (d. 1525)
• January 25 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1530)
• January 26
  • Min Bin (d. 1554)
  • Giovanni Poggio, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1556)
  • Ippolita Maria Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1501)
• February 9 – Helen of the Palatinate, Duchess of Pomerania (d. 1524)
• March 15 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
• April 11 – George I, Duke of Pomerania from the House of Griffins (d. 1531)
• April 25 – Giovanni Gaddi, Italian priest (d. 1542)
• May 5 – Alessandro Pasqualini, Italian architect (d. 1559)
• May 6 – Girolamo Seripando, Catholic cardinal (d. 1563)
• June 5 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
• June 10 – Anton Fugger, German merchant (d. 1560)
• September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and litterateur (d. 1543)
• September 29 – Yi Gwang-sik, Korean politician and general (d. 1563)
• October 14 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
• October 17 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Renaissance Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
• November 11 – Bernardo Tasso (d. 1569)
• November 11 or December 17 – Paracelsus, born Philippus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541)
• November 17 – John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (d. 1543)
• November 25 – Osanna of Cattaro, Dominican visionary and anchoress (d. 1565)
• December 9 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (d. 1566)
• December 25 – Antoinette de Bourbon, French noblewoman (d. 1583)
• December 27 – Johann Pfeffinger, German theologian (d. 1573)
• December 31 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Italian artists' model (d. 1570)
• date unknown
  • Jobst II, Count of Hoya (d. 1545)
  • 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

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.