1494

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Year 1494 (MCDXCIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

• January 25 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
• May 3 – Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica.
• May 31 – First Battle of Acentejo: Natives of the island of Tenerife, known as Guanches, defeat the invading Spanish forces.
• June 7 – Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the New World between themselves.
• October 22 – Ludovico Sforza becomes Duke of Milan, and starts a chain of events that leads to the First Italian War.

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• Amda Seyon II succeeds his father Eskender as Emperor of Ethiopia.
• Na'od succeeds his nephew Amda Seyon II as Emperor of Ethiopia.
• Aztec forces conquer and sack Mitla.
• Italy is invaded by Charles VIII of France.

1494 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1494 MCDXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2247
Armenian calendar	943 ԹՎ ՋԽԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-350 – -349
Berber calendar	2444
Buddhist calendar	2038
Burmese calendar	856
Byzantine calendar	7002 – 7003
Chinese calendar	癸丑年十一月廿四日 (4130/4190-11-24) — to — 甲寅年十二月初四日 (4131/4191-12-4)
Coptic calendar	1210 – 1211
Ethiopian calendar	1486 – 1487
Hebrew calendar	5254 – 5255
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1549 – 1550
- Shaka Samvat	1416 – 1417
- Kali Yuga	4595 – 4596
Holocene calendar	11494
Iranian calendar	872 – 873
Islamic calendar	899 – 900
Japanese calendar	Meiō 3 (明応3年)
Korean calendar	3827
Thai solar calendar	2037
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[edit] Births

• February 2 – Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557)
• April 9 – Francois Rabelais, French Renaissance writer (d. 1553)
• April 20 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
• May 24 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
• September 5 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (d. 1576)
• September 12 – King Francis I of France (d. 1547)
• November 6 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
• date unknown
  • Saitō Dōsan, Japanese warlord (d. 1556)
  • John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (d. 1554)
  • Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (d. 1573)
  • Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (d. 1519)
  • Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (d. 1519)
  • Hans Tausen, Danish religious reformer (d. 1561)
  • Qiu Ying, Chinese painter (d. 1552)
  • William Tyndale, English reformer and martyr (d. 1536)
  • Christina Gyllenstierna, Swedish national heroine (d.1559)

[edit] Deaths

• January 11 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
• January 25 – King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
• August 1 – Giovanni Santi, artist and father of Raphael (b. c. 1435)
• August 11 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. c. 1430)
• September 24 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
• October 26 – Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. c. 1487)
• November 8 – Melozzo da Forlì, painter (b. c. 1438)
• November 17 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (b. 1463)
• December 20 – Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (b. c. 1434)
• date unknown
  • Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1472)