1495

This article is about the year 1495.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1492 1493 1494 – 1495 – 1496 1497 1498

1495 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1495 in poetry

1495 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1495 MCDXCV
Ab urbe condita	2248
Armenian calendar	944 ԹՎ ՋԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	6245
Bahá'í calendar	-349–-348
Bengali calendar	902
Berber calendar	2445
English Regnal year	10 Hen. 7 – 11 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2039
Burmese calendar	857
Byzantine calendar	7003–7004
Chinese calendar	甲寅年十二月初五日 (4131/4191-12-5) — to — 乙卯年十二月十五日 (4132/4192-12-15)
Coptic calendar	1211–1212
Ethiopian calendar	1487–1488
Hebrew calendar	5255–5256
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1551–1552
- Shaka Samvat	1417–1418
- Kali Yuga	4596–4597
Holocene calendar	11495
Iranian calendar	873–874
Islamic calendar	900–901
Japanese calendar	Meiō 4 (明応4年)
Korean calendar	3828
Minguo calendar	417 before ROC 民前417年
Thai solar calendar	2038

Year 1495 (MCDXCV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

Events

January–December

• February 22 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as viceroy.
• May 26 – A Spanish army under Gonzalo de Córdoba lands in Calabria, with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples.
• June 1 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
• June 28 – Battle of Seminara: Cordoba and Ferrante are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny.
• July 6 – Battle of Fornovo: The French army under King Charles secures its retreat from Italy, by defeating a combined Milanese-Venetian force under Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua.
• October 25 – King Manuel I of Portugal begins his reign.
• November 30 – An explosion at Vyborg Castle deters the Russian forces who have invaded Sweden through Karelia.

Date unknown

• The Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire is founded.
• Henry VII of England commissions the world's first dry dock at Portsmouth.
• The University of Aberdeen is founded by Bishop William Elphinstone.
• Voyage of João Fernandes Lavrador and Pedro Barcelos to Greenland. During their voyage they discovered the land to which they gave the name of Labrador (lavrador, farmer)

Births

• March 6 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)
• March 8 – John of God, Spanish friar and saint (d. 1550)
• April 16 – Petrus Apianus, German humanist (d. 1557)
• November 21 – John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563)
• December 5 – Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
• date unknown
  • Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (d. 1540)
  • Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (d. 1568)
• probable
  • Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)
  • Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (d. 1545)
  • Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer (d. 1560)

Deaths

• January 11 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
• February 25 – Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (b. 1459)
• May 31 – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1415)
• September – Vlad Călugărul
• September 14 – Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (b. 1492)
• October 25 – King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
• December 18 – King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
• December 21 – Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (b. c. 1431)