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

★ 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''

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★ Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (died 1528)

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

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★ 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''

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★ Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Spanish author

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