1493
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 1493 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
Events
- January 19 - Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to Ferdinand of Aragon.
- April - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his first voyage of discovery.
- May 4 - Pope Alexander VI decrees that all lands discovered west of the Azores are Spanish.
- August 19 - Maximilian I succeeds his father, Frederick III, as Holy Roman Emperor.
- September 29 - Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz on his second voyage of exploration.
Births
- March 15 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
- June 5 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
- September 28 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. c. 1545)
- October 14 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
- November 11 (or December 17 - Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541)
- November 12 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1560)
- date unknown
- Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (d. 1541)
- Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
- Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (d. 1580)
- probable
- Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1560)
- Robert Maxwell, 2nd Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (d. 1546)
Deaths
- May 10 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. c. 1433)
- June 14 - Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (b. 1454)
- August 19 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
- September 9 - Mirko Derenčin, Croatian leader
- November - Martin Alonzo Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. c. 1441)
- November 6 - Andrey Bolshoy, Russian prince (b. 1446)
- date unknown
- James Blount, English soldier
- James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
- Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (b. 1450)
- Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu
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