1493 to 14951493x - Russia ?+ After a major fire in Moscow,Ivan III + the Great forbides the construction of wooden buildings in the old city.
x - The "World Chronicle" of Hartmann Schedel is held at the Library of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria.
x - Columbus sailed into St. Croix's Salt River Bay.
x - Columbus discovered a group of islands, now called the Virgin Islands, that he christened Las Once Mil Virgenes, in memory of St. Ursula and her 11,000 martyr virgins who were slaughtered by the Huns at Cologne in the 5th century.
x - Columbus on his 2nd voyage discovered the island of Puerto Rico.Juan Ponce de Leon + was a member of Columbus' crew.
mar 15 - Christopher Columbus ?+ returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
may 01 - Phillippus Paracelsus, physician and alchemist, was born.
may 04 - Pope Alexander VI divided the non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal.
aug 19 - Maximilian succeeded his father Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor.
sep 25 - Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his second voyage to the new world.s.sep 25
sep 25 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.s.sep 29 He was accompanied by 13 clerics; Alvarez Chanca, a physician who left valuable accounts of the voyage;Juan Ponce de Leon ; Juan de la Cosa, a cartographer; and Columbus's younger brother Bartholomew.
nov 03 - Christopher Columbus discovered the Caribbee Isles (Dominica) during his second expedition. He and his crew of 1,500 built the town of La Isabela on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. It was abandoned within 5 years due in part to poor relations with the Taino Indians. This area was part of the chiefdom of Higuey.
nov 04 - Christopher Columbus discovered Guadeloupe during his second expedition.
nov 10 - Christopher Columbus discovered Antigua during his second expedition.
dec 07 - Columbus left the ruined settlement of La Navidad and sailed east for a month till he reached the site that became La Isabela in the Dominican Republic.
1494c - William Tyndale is born
c - Father Ramon Pane wrote an account of the Taino religion at the request of Christopher Columbus.
x - Russia ?+ Ivan III + the Great drives out the German Merchants and closes the Hanseatic Kontore.
x - First mobile artillery firing iron cannon balls, used by Charles VIII in Italy
x - Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire. His harem was reported to accommodate 2,000 women.d.1566
x - Jacopoda Pontormo, Italian painter. He represented what Vasari called the terza maniera, the third or modern manner of painting. d.1557
x - Francois Rabelais, French satirist: "If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your mirror."d.1553
x - France ? The time of King Francois I. The stench along the Seine drove him from the Hotel des Tournelles. Cesspools and the guild that emptied them, the Maitres Fy-Fy, developed at this time. u.1547
x - The head of the Medici family fled Florence in the face of a French invasion. Savonarola took the opportunity to lead Florence in restoring a representative government.
x - The earliest report of Scots making whiskey. s.1495
x - Carol Verardi in Basel published an illustrated report of the first expedition to the new world by Christopher Columbus.
x - Luca Pacioli, considered the father of accounting, published a book on bookkeeping.
x - Lodovico il Moro, the duke of Milan, commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to paint "The Last Supper" (Cenacolo).
jan - In the Dominican Republic there was a failed rebellion against Columbus. The revolt was organized by Bernal de Pisa, the royal accountant, who was unhappy with the poor return of gold. Pisa was jailed and several others were hanged.
jan 06 - The 1st Roman Catholic Mass in the New World marked the official establishment of La Isabela.
feb 20 - Johann Agricola is born in Eisleben.will become a German reformer who studies under Luther at Wittenberg and serves as his secretary at the Leipzig Disputation.
may 05 - During his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus ?+ first landed on the island of Jamaica, which he names Santa Gloria, and commented on the daily rains.
jun 07 - Spain and Portugal divided the new lands they had discovered between themselves.
1495x - First recorded outbreak of syphilis infects the army of Charles VIII at Naples
x - Leonardo da Vinci worked on "The Last Supper" in Milan under commission for Duke Ludovico Sforza. u.1498
x - The Taino Indians on Hispaniola staged an organized attack on the Spaniards, but it was easily crushed.
x - Leonardo da Vinci sketched a design of a parachute.
jun 01 - The first written record of Scotch Whiskey appeared in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor was the distiller. The later J&;B brand stood for Justerini and Brooks.
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