Year 1495 (MCDXCV ) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
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January– December
February – King's College, Aberdeen , predecessor of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland , is founded on the petition of William Elphinstone , Bishop of Aberdeen . It is the first English -speaking university to teach medicine.
February 22 – Italian War of 1494–98 : 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. Syphilis is first definitely recorded in Europe during this invasion.[1] (perhaps from French forces who may have contacted Croats fleeing an Ottoman army in the east).
May 26 – A Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba lands in Calabria , with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferdinand II of Naples to the throne.
June 1 – Brother John Cor of Lindores Abbey pays duty on 8 bolls of malt to the Exchequer in Scotland to make aqua vitae for King James IV ; the record in the Exchequer Rolls is the first written reference to Scotch whisky .
June 28 – Battle of Seminara : Córdoba and Ferdinand are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny .
July 3 – Battle of Deal : Perkin Warbeck 's troops land in Kent , in support of his claim to the English crown , backed by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy . They are routed before Warbeck himself can disembark, and he retreats to Ireland and then to Scotland.
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 .
Summer – John, King of Denmark , sets sail for Kalmar , Sweden , to negotiate with Sten Sture the Elder to restore the power of the Kalmar Union . However, his flagship, Gribshunden , catches fire and sinks off the coast of Ronneby with loss of life, and he is forced to abandon the mission.
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 .
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Reisszug , as it appeared in 2011
January 26 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557 )
February 4
February 13 – Giacomo Puteo , Spanish cardinal (d. 1563 )
March 6 – Luigi Alamanni , Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556 )
March 8 – John of God , Portuguese friar and saint (d. 1550 )
March 26 – Michele Antonio, Marquess of Saluzzo (d. 1528 )
March 29 – Leonhard Päminger , Austrian composer (d. 1567 )
April 16 – Petrus Apianus , German humanist (d. 1552 )
August 1 – Jan van Scorel , Dutch painter (d. 1562 )
August 24 – Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg , Prince of Lüneburg and Baron of Harburg (d. 1549 )
September 18 – Louis X, Duke of Bavaria , German noble (d. 1545 )
September 20 – Gian Matteo Giberti , Catholic bishop (d. 1543 )
September 23 – Bagrat III of Imereti , King of Imereti (d. 1565 )
September 24 – Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach , Landgravine of Leuchtenberg (d. 1552 )
November 1 – Erhard Schnepf , German theologian (d. 1558 )
November 21 – John Bale , English churchman (d. 1563 )[6]
December 5 – Nicolas Cleynaerts , Flemish grammarian (d. 1542 )
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January 11 – Pedro González de Mendoza , Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428 )
January 21 – Magdalena of France , French princess and regent of Navarre (b. 1443 )
February 25 – Sultan Cem , pretender to the Ottoman throne (b. 1459 )
May 31 – Cecily Neville , English duchess, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1415 )
September – Vlad Călugărul , Wallachian half-brother of Vlad III (The Impaler)
September 14 – Elizabeth Tudor , English princess, daughter of Henry VII of England (b. 1492 )
October 25 – King John II of Portugal (b. 1455 )[8]
October 30 – Francis, Count of Vendome (b. 1470 )
December 16 – Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France , French noble (b. 1492 )
December 18 – King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448 )
December 21 – Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (b. c. 1431 )
Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History . Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
"Cuauhtémoc" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .