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Year '1496' was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1496

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1496

★ January 3 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.

★ March 5 - England King Henry VII issued letters patern to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover unknown lands.

★ March - Santo Domingo is discovered.

★ March 10 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.

★ July - Spanish forces under Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordoba capture Atella after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier. Ferrante II is restored to the throne of Naples.

Undated

★ Jesus College (University of Cambridge) founded.

★ Henry VII of England signs the commercial treaty the Magnus Intercursus with Venice, Florence, and the villes of the Hanse and Pays-Bas.

Births

★ March 28 - Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (died 1533)

★ May 12 - King Gustav I of Sweden (died 1560)

★ October 20 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (died 1550)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (died 1570)

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★ Richard Maitland, Scottish poet (died 1586)

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★ Clément Marot, French poet (died 1544)

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★ Menno Simons, Dutch Anabaptist leader (died 1561)

★ ''probable''

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★ Edward Foxe, English churchman (died 1538)

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★ Anthony St Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (died 1559)

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★ Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (died 1549)

Deaths

★ January 1 - Charles, Count of Angoulême (born 1459)

★ February 24 - Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (born 1445)

★ March 4 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (born 1427)

★ September 7 - King Ferdinand II of Naples (born 1469)

★ September 25 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (born 1447)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Infanta Isabel of Portugal, queen of Castile and Leon (born 1428)

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★ Piero Pollaiuolo, Italian painter (born 1443)

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★ Qaitbay, sultan of Egypt

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★ Miura Tokitaka, warlord