1493

1493 (MCDXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1493rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 493rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 15th century, and the 4th year of the 1490s decade. As of the start of 1493, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1493 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1493 MCDXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2246
Armenian calendar	942 ԹՎ ՋԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	6243
Balinese saka calendar	1414–1415
Bengali calendar	900
Berber calendar	2443
English Regnal year	8 Hen. 7 – 9 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2037
Burmese calendar	855
Byzantine calendar	7001–7002
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 4189 or 4129     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4190 or 4130
Coptic calendar	1209–1210
Discordian calendar	2659
Ethiopian calendar	1485–1486
Hebrew calendar	5253–5254
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1549–1550
- Shaka Samvat	1414–1415
- Kali Yuga	4593–4594
Holocene calendar	11493
Igbo calendar	493–494
Iranian calendar	871–872
Islamic calendar	898–899
Japanese calendar	Meiō 2 (明応２年)
Javanese calendar	1410–1411
Julian calendar	1493 MCDXCIII
Korean calendar	3826
Minguo calendar	419 before ROC 民前419年
Nanakshahi calendar	25
Thai solar calendar	2035–2036
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1619 or 1238 or 466     — to — ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 1620 or 1239 or 467

Events

• March 15 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
• July 28 – Great fire in Moscow.
• September 9 – Battle of Krbava field between defending Croatian nobles and invading Ottoman Turk forces.
• November 19 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
• December 23 – Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.