1493

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Year 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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