1495

Year '1495' was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

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Events of 1495

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1495

★ 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 Gonzalo de Córdoba 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 Stewart, Lord of 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.

Undated

★ Russia invades Sweden through Karelia, but the Russian troops are beaten back at Vyborg.

★ Founding of the Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire.

★ Henry VII of England commissions world's first dry dock at Portsmouth

★ University of Aberdeen founded by Bishop William Elphinstone

★ Loughborough Grammar School founded by Thomas Burton

Births

★ March 6 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)

★ March 8 - John of God, Spanish friar and saint (died 1550)

★ April 16 - Petrus Apianus, German humanist (died 1557)

★ November 21 - John Bale, English churchman (died 1563)

★ December 5 - Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (died 1540)

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★ Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (died 1568)

★ ''probable''

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★ Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (died 1541)

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★ Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (died 1545)

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★ Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer (died 1560)

Deaths

★ January 11 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (born 1428)

★ February 25 - Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (born 1459)

★ May 31 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (born 1415)

★ September 14 - Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (born 1492)

★ October 25 - King John II of Portugal (born 1455)

★ December 18 - King Alphonso II of Naples (born 1448)

★ December 21 - Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (born c1431)