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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s
Years:	1501 1502 1503 – 1504 – 1505 1506 1507

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Bay of Naples.

Year 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January 1 – French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.
January 31 – Treaty of Lyon: France cedes Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon who becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse this night to convince Jamaican tribesmen to provide him with supplies.
March 31 – France and Spain agree to a ceasefire.
April 1 – English guilds subject to state control.
April 23 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, routes troops to Bavaria.

September 8 – Michelangelo's sculpture of David is erected in Florence.
September 22 – A settled engagement is arranged between Karel of Luxembourg and Claudia the Beaujeu.
September 22 – Treaty of Blois: Philip I of Castile, Maximilian I and Louis XII agree terms.
October 12 – Isabella I of Castile signs her testament.
November 7 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage, where he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
November 26 – Isabella I of Castile, Catholic Queen of Castile and Aragon, dies, ending her patronage for Columbus. The Crown of Castile passes to her daughter Joanna.

Baber besieges and captures Kabul.
History of Sudan: A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Sultanate of Sennar.
Sheikh Ahmad, final leader of the Great Horde, is last heard of as a Lithuanian prisoner at Vilnius.
Juan de la Cosa begins his first independent voyage, to the Isthmus of Panama.
In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli become involved in a scheme to divert the Arno River, cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, fails to follow da Vinci’s design, and the project is a major failure.
Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.
Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.
Matthias Grünewald paints a Crucifixion.
The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.
Raphael paints The Marriage of the Virgin, which exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art.

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