1504


Year '1504' (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents
Events of 1504
January - June
July - December
Undated
Births
Deaths

Events of 1504


January - June

Bay of Naples.


January 1 - French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.

January 31 - By Treaty of Lyon, France cedes Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon.

February 29 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican tribesmen to provide him with supplies.

March 31 - France and Spain agree to ceasefire.

April 1 - English guilds enter state control.

April 23 - King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria.
July - December



September 8 - Michelangelo's sculpture of ''David'' is erected in Florence.

September 22 - Settle engagement between Karel of Luxembourg and Claudia the Beaujeu.

September 22 - Treaty of Blois: Philip van Bourgondie and Maximilian I and Louis XII agree to terms.

October 12 - Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament.

November 26 - Isabella of Castille, Catholic Queen of Castille and Aragon, dies, ending her patronage for Christopher Columbus.


Undated


Moldavia, Stephen III 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 returns 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.

Grünenwald: "Crucifixion".

★ Voyage of Juan de la Cosa is made to South America.

★ A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Sultanate of Sennar (History of Sudan).

★ In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli become involved in a scheme to divert the Arno River, cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, failed to follow da Vinci’s design, and the project was a major failure.

★ The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.

Raphael paints "The Marriage of the Virgin" (exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art).

Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.

Births



January 17 - Pope Pius V (died 1572)

April 30 - Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (died 1570)

May 5 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (died 1579)

July 18 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (died 1575)

August 6 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1574)

★ November - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (died 1573)

November 13 - Philipp I of Hesse (died 1567)

★ ''date unknown''


Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (died 1528)


Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian (died 1568)


Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (died 1556)

★ ''probable'' - Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (died 1568)
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Deaths



★ April - Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (born 1457)

June 19 - Bernard Walther, humanist (born 1430)

July 2 - Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (born 1434)

July 29 - Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (born 1435)

September 9 - Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), astrologer (born 1467)

September 10 - Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (born 1480)

November 9 - King Frederick IV of Naples (born 1452)

November 26 - Queen Isabella of Castile (born 1451)

December 21 - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)

★ ''date unknown''


Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Spanish author


Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (born 1454)
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