1493
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1493 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World.
- March 15 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
- May 4 - Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line.
- July 28 - Great fire in Moscow.
- September 9 - Battle of Krbava field between defending Croatian nobles and invading Ottoman Turk forces.
- November 19 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
- December 23 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
Births
- June 5 - Justus Jonas, German protestant reformer (died 1555)
- September 28 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet
- October 14 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (died 1568)
- November 12 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (died 1560)
- Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat
- Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and Lord Chancellor
- Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (died 1541)
- Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (died 1573)
- Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (died 1541)
- Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (died 1580)
- François Rabelais, French writer
Deaths
- May 10 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician
- June 14 - Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (born 1454)
- August 19 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1415)
- James Blount, English soldier
- James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
- Martin Alonzo Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer
- Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (born 1450)
- Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu
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