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Year '1493' was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

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Events of 1493

Births

Deaths

Events of 1493

★ January - Ivan III of Russia declares himself ''gosudar' vseja Rusi'' - "Lord of all Rus'".

★ January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World.

★ March 15 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

★ May 4 - Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line.

★ July 28 - Great fire in Moscow.

★ September 9 - Battle of Krbava field between defending Croatian nobles and invading Ottoman Turk forces.

★ November 19 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

★ December 23 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's ''Nuremberg Chronicle'' is published.

Births

★ March 15 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (died 1567)

★ June 5 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (died 1555)

★ September 28 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (died c1545)

★ October 14 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (died 1568)

★ November 11 (or December 17 - Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (died 1541)

★ November 12 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (died 1560)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (died 1541)

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★ Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (died 1573)

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★ Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (died 1580)

★ ''probable''

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★ Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (died 1560)

Deaths

★ May 10 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (born c1433)

★ June 14 - Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (born 1454)

★ August 19 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1415)

★ September 9 - Mirko Derenčin, Croatian leader

★ November - Martin Alonzo Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer (born c1441)

★ November 6 - Andrey Bolshoy, Russian prince (born 1446)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ James Blount, English soldier

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★ James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton

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★ Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (born 1450)

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★ Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu