1496

1496 (MCDXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1496th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 496th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 15th century, and the 7th year of the 1490s decade. As of the start of 1496, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1496 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1496 MCDXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2249
Armenian calendar	945 ԹՎ ՋԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	6246
Balinese saka calendar	1417–1418
Bengali calendar	903
Berber calendar	2446
English Regnal year	11 Hen. 7 – 12 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2040
Burmese calendar	858
Byzantine calendar	7004–7005
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4192 or 4132     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4193 or 4133
Coptic calendar	1212–1213
Discordian calendar	2662
Ethiopian calendar	1488–1489
Hebrew calendar	5256–5257
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1552–1553
- Shaka Samvat	1417–1418
- Kali Yuga	4596–4597
Holocene calendar	11496
Igbo calendar	496–497
Iranian calendar	874–875
Islamic calendar	901–902
Japanese calendar	Meiō 5 (明応５年)
Javanese calendar	1413–1414
Julian calendar	1496 MCDXCVI
Korean calendar	3829
Minguo calendar	416 before ROC 民前416年
Nanakshahi calendar	28
Thai solar calendar	2038–2039
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) 1622 or 1241 or 469     — to — མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 1623 or 1242 or 470

Events

• January 3 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
• 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.
• Jesus College (University of Cambridge) founded.

Births

• March 28 – Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (died 1533)
• May 12 – King Gustav I of Sweden (died 1560)
• October 20 – Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (died 1550)
• François Bonivard, Swiss historian (died 1570)
• Edward Fox, English churchman (died 1538)
• Richard Maitland, Scottish poet (died 1586)
• Clément Marot, French poet (died 1544)
• Anthony St Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (died 1559)
• Menno Simons, Dutch religious leader (died 1561)
• Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (died 1549)

Deaths

• March 4 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (born 1427)
• September 7 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (born 1469)
• September 25 – Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (born 1447)
• Piero del Pollaiuolo, Italian painter (born 1443)