1504

Events of 1504

January 1 - French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
January 31 - 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 a ceasefire.
April 1 - English guilds enter state control.
April 23 - King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria.

September 8 - Michelangelo's sculpture of David is erected in Florence.
September 22 - A settle engagement is arranged 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.

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.
Matthias Grünewald paints Crucifixion.
Juan de la Cosa makes a voyage 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, fails to follow da Vinci’s design, and the project is 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, which exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art.
Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.

January 17 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
April 30 - Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (d. 1570)
May 5 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579)
July 18 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
August 6 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574)
November - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573)
November 13 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
date unknown

Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي), author of Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa
Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (d. 1528)
Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian (d. 1568)
Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (d. 1556)