1504
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1504 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- January 1 - French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
- January 31 - France cedes Naples to Aragon.
- February 29 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowldege of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes his sculpture of David - September 8 it is erected in Florence.
- 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.
- Grünenwald: "Crucifixion".
- Voyage of Juan de la Cosa to South America.
- Erasmus: Enchiridion militis chritiani ("Handbook of the Christian Soldier").
- A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Black Sultanate (As Saltana az Zarqa) at Sennar. (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah))
Births
- January 17 - Pope Pius V (died 1572)
- May 5 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (died 1579)
- July 18 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (died 1575)
- August 6 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1574)
- November 13 - Philipp I of Hesse (died 1567)
- Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (died 1568)
- Charles Estienne, Humanist (died 1564)
- Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (died 1573)
- Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (died 1528)
- Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian
- Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (died 1570)
- Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (died 1556)
Deaths
- July 2 - Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (born 1434)
- November 9 - King Frederick IV of Naples (born 1452)
- November 26 - Queen Isabella of Castile (born 1451)
- December 21 - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
- Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (born 1435)
- Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Spanish author
- Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (born 1457)
- Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (born 1454)
- Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (born 1480)
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