1493

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

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

Events [edit]

January 19 – Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to Ferdinand of Aragon.
March 15 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his first voyage of discovery.
May 4 – In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI decrees that all lands discovered 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 was fought between the Kingdom of Croatia and Ottoman forces in southern Croatia.
September 26 – Pope Alexander VI issues the bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera
September 29 – Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz on his second voyage of exploration.
November 19 – Columbus lands on the coast of the island of Borinquen, which he renames San Juan (present day, Puerto Rico).
England imposes sanctions on Burgundy for supporting Perkin Warbeck.^[1]

January 25 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1530)
March 15 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
June 5 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. c. 1545)
October 14 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
November 11 (or December 17 – Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541)
November 12 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1560)
date unknown
- Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (d. 1541)
- Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
- 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)

^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.