1493

Year 1493 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

Events

* January 19 - Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to Ferdinand of Aragon.
* April - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his first voyage of discovery.
* May 4 - Pope Alexander VI decrees that all lands discovered west of the Azores are Spanish.
* August 19 - Maximilian I succeeds his father, Frederick III, as Holy Roman Emperor.
* September 29 - Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz on his second voyage of exploration.

Births

* March 15 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
* June 5 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
* September 28 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. c. 1545)
* October 14 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
* November 11 (or December 17 - Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541)
* November 12 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1560)
*"date unknown"
**Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (d. 1541)
**Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
**Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (d. 1580)
*"probable"
**Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1560)
**Robert Maxwell, 4th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (d. 1546)

Deaths

* May 10 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. c. 1433)
* June 14 - Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (b. 1454)
* August 19 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
* September 9 - Mirko Derenčin, Croatian leader
* November - Martin Alonzo Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. c. 1441)
* November 6 - Andrey Bolshoy, Russian prince (b. 1446)
*"date unknown"
**James Blount, English soldier
**James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
**Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (b. 1450)
**Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu