1504
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1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.
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Events
- January 1 – French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
- January 31 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
- February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
- Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti) finishes his sculpture of David – August 8 it is erected in Florence.
- Moldavia, Stephan III the Great fights against Turkey and Poland.
- Baber besieges and captures Kabul.
- Ferdinand II of Aragon becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
- Christopher Columbus return to Spain from his fourth voyage where he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
- Aldo Manuzio publishes Demosthenes.
- Grünenwald: "Crucifixion".
- Voyage of Juan de la Cosa to South America.
- A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Black Sultanate (As Saltana az Zarqa) at Sennar. (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah))
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Births
- Roxelana, Polish wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (d.1558)
- August 6 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1574)
- Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer
Deaths
- November 9 – King Frederick IV of Naples
- November 26 – Queen Isabella of Castile (born 1451)
- Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer
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