1493

This article is about the year 1493. For the history book by Charles C. Mann, see 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.

1493 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1493 MCDXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2246
Armenian calendar	942 ԹՎ ՋԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	6243
Balinese saka calendar	1414–1415
Bengali calendar	899–900
Berber calendar	2443
English Regnal year	8  Hen. 7  – 9  Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2037
Burmese calendar	855
Byzantine calendar	7001–7002
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water  Rat) 4190 or 3983     — to — 癸丑年 (Water  Ox) 4191 or 3984
Coptic calendar	1209–1210
Discordian calendar	2659
Ethiopian calendar	1485–1486
Hebrew calendar	5253–5254
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1549–1550
- Shaka Samvat	1414–1415
- Kali Yuga	4593–4594
Holocene calendar	11493
Igbo calendar	493–494
Iranian calendar	871–872
Islamic calendar	898–899
Japanese calendar	Meiō 2 (明応２年)
Javanese calendar	1410–1411
Julian calendar	1493 MCDXCIII
Korean calendar	3826
Minguo calendar	419 before ROC 民前419年
Nanakshahi calendar	25
Thai solar calendar	2035–2036
Tibetan calendar	阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1619 or 1238 or 466     — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1620 or 1239 or 467

Hartmann Schedel's 1493 map of the world

Year 1493 ( MCDXCIII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 19 – Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to Ferdinand of Aragon. ^[1]
• March 1 – Martín Alonso Pinzón returns to the city of Bayona in Spain from the voyage of discovery, sending the first notice about the discovery to the Catholic Monarchs (Christopher Columbus is delayed by a storm in the Azores).
• March 4 – Christopher Columbus anchors in Lisbon and completes his February 15 letter on the first voyage, conveying the news of his discoveries.
• March 15 – Christopher Columbus and Martín Alonso Pinzón return to Palos de la Frontera, the original port in Spain from where they started the first voyage of discovery.
• April 12 – Battle of Anfao: Askia Mohammad I defeats Sonni Baru, and usurps the throne of the Songhai Empire. ^[2]
• May 4 – In the papal bull Inter caetera , Pope Alexander VI decrees that all lands discovered 100 leagues (or further west) of the Azores are Spanish.
• August 19 – Maximilian I succeeds his father, Frederick III, as Holy Roman Emperor.
• September 9 – Battle of Krbava Field in southern Croatia: Forces of the Ottoman Empire defeat those of the Kingdom of Croatia.
• September 24 – Christopher Columbus leaves Cádiz on his second voyage of exploration.
• September 26 – Pope Alexander VI issues the bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of newly discovered lands he made them in Inter caetera .
• November 19 – Christopher Columbus lands on the coast of the island of Borinquen, which he renames San Juan (modern-day Puerto Rico).

Date unknown

• England imposes sanctions on Burgundy for supporting Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the English throne. ^[3]
• James IV of Scotland seizes lands of John MacDonald II, putting an end to the Lord of the Isles.
• Huayna Capac becomes emperor of the Inca Empire.
• Leonardo da Vinci creates the first known design for a helicopter.

Births

• January 2 – Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme, French cardinal (d. 1557)
• January 6 – Olaus Petri, Swedish clergyman (d. 1552)
• January 9 – Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Viceroy of Valencia, German noble (d. 1525)
• January 25 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1530)
• January 26
  • Min Bin, king of Arakan (d. 1554)
  • Giovanni Poggio, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1556)
  • Ippolita Maria Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1501)
• February 9 – Helen of the Palatinate, Duchess of Pomerania (d. 1524)
• March 15 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
• April 11 – George I, Duke of Pomerania from the House of Griffins (d. 1531)
• April 25 – Giovanni Gaddi, Italian priest (d. 1542)
• May 5 – Alessandro Pasqualini, Italian architect (d. 1559)
• May 6 – Girolamo Seripando, Catholic cardinal (d. 1563)
• June 5 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
• June 10 – Anton Fugger, German merchant (d. 1560)
• September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and litterateur (d. 1543)
• September 29 – Yi Gwang-sik, Korean politician and general (d. 1563)
• October 14 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
• October 17 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Renaissance Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
• November 11 – Bernardo Tasso, Italian courtier and poet (d. 1569) ^[4]
• November 11 or December 17 – Paracelsus, born Philippus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541) ^[5]
• November 17 – John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (d. 1543)
• November 25 – Osanna of Cattaro, Dominican visionary and anchoress (d. 1565)
• December 9 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (d. 1566)
• December 25 – Antoinette de Bourbon, French noblewoman (d. 1583)
• December 27 – Johann Pfeffinger, German theologian (d. 1573)
• December 31 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Italian politically active duchess (d. 1570)
• date unknown
  • Jobst II, Count of Hoya (d. 1545)
  • Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (d. 1541)
  • Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (d. 1580)
• probable
  • Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1560)
  • Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (d. 1546)

Deaths

• May – Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (b. 1450)
• May 10 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. c. 1433)
• May 14 – Nannina de' Medici, member of de' Medici family (b. 1448)
• June 14 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (b. 1454)
• August 19 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
• September 9 – Mirko Derenčin, Croatian leader
• October 11 – Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1450)
• October 22 – James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
• November 6 – Andrey Bolshoy, Russian prince (b. 1446)
• date unknown
  • Ahmad Zarruq, Moroccan scholar and Sufi sheikh (b. 1442)
  • James Blount, English soldier
  • Isabel Bras Williamson, Scottish merchant (b. 1430)
  • Kim Si-sŭp, Korean scholar and author (b. 1435)
  • Martín Alonso Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. c. 1441)
  • Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu

References

1. "Historical Events for Year 1493 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. November 21, 1493. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
2. Williams, Neville (1999). "1493". The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: 1492-1775 - The Expanding World. Abington, UK: Helicon Books. ISBN   978-1-85-986282-7.
3. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN   0-7126-5616-2.
4. Edward Williamson (1951). Bernardo Tasso. Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. p. 1.
5. Spring. Spring Publications. 1999. p. 143. ISBN   978-1-882670-17-8.