1504

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Years: 1501 1502 1503 - 1504 - 1505 1506 1507

Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

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 - August 8 it is erected in Florence.
• Moldavia, Stephan 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 return 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 (b. 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)
• Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (born 1435)
• Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldavia (born 1434)