| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s |
| Years: | 1493 1494 1495 - 1496 - 1497 1498 1499 |
| 1496 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1496 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Contents |
Events of 1496
- January 3 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
- March 5 - England King Henry VII issues letters patern to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover unknown lands.
- March - Santo Domingo is discovered.
- March 10 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
- July - Spanish forces under Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordoba capture Atella after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier. Ferrante II is restored to the throne of Naples.
Undated
- Jesus College (University of Cambridge) is founded.
- Henry VII of England signs the commercial treaty Magnus Intercursus with Venice, Florence, and the villes of the Hanse and Pays-Bas.
- Joanna, second daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, heiress to Castile, marries the archduke Philip, heir through his mother to the Burgundian Netherlands, and through his father to the Holy Roman Empire.
- Christopher Columbus forcibly subjugates the island Hispaniola, enslaves the Amerindians and lays the basis for a system of land grants tied to the Amerindians' labor service.
Ongoing
- Charles VIII's Italian War (1494-98)
| Gregorian calendar | 1496 MCDXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2249 |
| Armenian calendar | 945 Ô¹ÕŽ Õ‹Ô½Ôµ |
| Bahá'à calendar | -348 – -347 |
| Berber calendar | 2446 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2040 |
| Burmese calendar | 858 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7004 – 7005 |
| Chinese calendar | ä¹™å¯å¹´å二月åå…æ—¥ (4132/4192-12-16) — to —
丙辰年å一月廿七日(4133/4193-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 1212 – 1213 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1488 – 1489 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5256 – 5257 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1551 – 1552 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1418 – 1419 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4597 – 4598 |
| Holocene calendar | 11496 |
| Iranian calendar | 874 – 875 |
| Islamic calendar | 901 – 902 |
| Japanese calendar | MeiŠ5 (明応5年) |
| Korean calendar | 3829 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2039 |
Births
- March 28 - Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)
- May 12 - King Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
- August 28 - Konrad Heresbach, German Calvinist (d. 1576)
- October 20 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)
- December 20 - Joseph ha-Kohen, historian and physician (d. 1575)
- date unknown
- Lazare de Baïf, French diplomat and author (d. 1547)
- João de Barros, Portuguese historian (d. 1570)
- François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (d. 1570)
- Bernal DÃaz del Castillo, Spanish conquistador (d. 1584)
- Dirck Jacobsz, Dutch painter (d. 1567)
- Gregorio López de Tovar, Spanish humanist and lawyer (d. 1560)
- Richard Maitland, Scottish poet (d. 1586)
- Clément Marot, French poet (d. 1544)
- Louise de Montmorency, French noblewoman (d. 1547)
- Martin Ocelotl, Mexican priest (d. c. 1537)
- William Roper, son-in-law and biographer of Thomas More (d. 1578)
- Giovanni Battista da Sangallo, Italian architect (d. 1548)
- ShÅkei, Japanese temple administrator (d. 1574)
- Menno Simons, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1561)
- Agostino Steuco, Italian humanist scholar (d. 1548)
- Johann Walter, Lutheran composer and poet (d. 1570)
- probable - Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (d. 1549)
Deaths
- January 1 - Charles, Count of Angoulême (b. 1459)
- February 24 - Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1445)
- March 4 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
- March 12 - Johann Heynlin, German humanist scholar (b. c. 1425)
- April 16 - Charles II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1489)
- April 29 - Dom Fernando de Almada, Count of Avranches (b. c. 1430)
- August 15 - Infanta Isabel of Portugal, queen of Castile and Leon (b. 1428)
- September 7 - King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
- September 15 - Hugh Clopton, Lord Mayor of London (b. c. 1440)
- September 25 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
- October 15 - Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443)
- November 1 - Filip Callimachus, Italian humanist writer (b. 1437)
- date unknown
- Richard Bell, Bishop of Carlisle
- Alexander Inglis, Scottish clergyman
- Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1458)
- Piero Pollaiuolo, Italian painter (b. 1443)
- Qaitbay, sultan of Egypt
- Ercole de' Roberti, Italian artist (b. c. 1451)
- probable - Jan IV Oświęcimski, duke of Oświęcim