1493
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| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s |
| Years: | 1490 1491 1492 - 1493 - 1494 1495 1496 |
| 1493 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1493 MCDXCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2246 |
| Armenian calendar | 942 ԹՎ ՋԽԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -351 – -350 |
| Berber calendar | 2443 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2037 |
| Burmese calendar | 855 |
| Chinese calendar | 4129/4189-12-14 (壬子年十二月十四日) — to —
4130/4190-11-23(癸丑年十一月廿三日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1209 – 1210 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1485 – 1486 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5253 – 5254 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1548 – 1549 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1415 – 1416 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4594 – 4595 |
| Holocene calendar | 11493 |
| Iranian calendar | 871 – 872 |
| Islamic calendar | 898 – 899 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiō 2 (明応2年) |
| Korean calendar | 3826 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2036 |
Year 1493 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
[edit] Events
- January 19 - Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to Ferdinand of Aragon.
- April - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his first voyage of discovery.
- May 4 - 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 29 - Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz on his second voyage of exploration.
[edit] Births
- 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, 2nd Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (d. 1546)
[edit] Deaths
- May 10 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. c. 1433)
- June 14 - Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (b. 1454)
- August 19 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
- September 9 - Mirko Derenčin, Croatian leader
- November - Martin Alonzo Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. c. 1441)
- November 6 - Andrey Bolshoy, Russian prince (b. 1446)
- date unknown
- James Blount, English soldier
- James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
- Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (b. 1450)
- Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu
