1496

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Year 1496 (MCDXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January 3 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
February – Pietro Bembo's Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chalabrilem liber is published in Venice by Aldus Manutius, the first book printed in the old style serif or humanist typeface cut by Francesco Griffo and known from the 20th century as Bembo.
March 5 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover unknown lands.
March – Santo Domingo is discovered.
March 10 – Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
July – Spanish forces under Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordoba capture Atella after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier. Ferrante II is restored to the throne of Naples.
August 5 – Bartholomew Columbus, brother of Christopher Columbus, founds the city of Santo Domingo, now part of the Dominican Republic, making it the oldest American City and permanent settlement in the New World.

Jesus College (University of Cambridge) is founded.
Henry VII of England signs the commercial treaty Magnus Intercursus with Venice, Florence, and the villes of the Hanse and Pays-Bas.
Joanna, second daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, heiress to Castile, marries the archduke Philip, heir through his mother to the Burgundian Netherlands, and through his father to the Holy Roman Empire.
Christopher Columbus forcibly subjugates the island Hispaniola, enslaves the Amerindians and lays the basis for a system of land grants tied to the Amerindians' labor service.

March 18 – Mary Tudor, Queen of Louis XII of France, daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1533)
May 12 – King Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
August 28 – Konrad Heresbach, German Calvinist (d. 1576)
October 20 – Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)
December 20 – Joseph ha-Kohen, historian and physician (d. 1575)
date unknown
- Lazare de Baïf, French diplomat and author (d. 1547)
- João de Barros, Portuguese historian (d. 1570)
- François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (d. 1570)
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish conquistador (d. 1584)
- Dirck Jacobsz, Dutch painter (d. 1567)
- Gregorio López de Tovar, Spanish humanist and lawyer (d. 1560)
- Richard Maitland, Scottish poet (d. 1586)
- Clément Marot, French poet (d. 1544)
- Louise de Montmorency, French noblewoman (d. 1547)
- Martin Ocelotl, Mexican priest (d. c. 1537)
- William Roper, son-in-law and biographer of Thomas More (d. 1578)
- Giovanni Battista da Sangallo, Italian architect (d. 1548)
- Menno Simons, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1561)
- Agostino Steuco, Italian humanist scholar (d. 1548)
- Johann Walter, Lutheran composer and poet (d. 1570)
probable – Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (d. 1549)