1504

Year 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1504

January - June

* January 1 - French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
* January 31 - Treaty of Lyon: France cedes Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon.
* February 29 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican tribesmen to provide him with supplies.
* March 31 - France and Spain agree to a ceasefire.
* April 1 - English guilds enter state control.
* April 23 - King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria.

July - December

* September 8 - Michelangelo's sculpture of "David" is erected in Florence.
* September 22 - A settle engagement is arranged between Karel of Luxembourg and Claudia the Beaujeu.
* September 22 - Treaty of Blois: Philip van Bourgondie and Maximilian I and Louis XII agree to terms.
* October 12 - Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament.
* November 26 - Isabella of Castille, Catholic Queen of Castille and Aragon, dies, ending her patronage for Christopher Columbus.

Undated

* Moldavia: Stephen 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 returns 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".
* Matthias Grünewald paints "Crucifixion".
* Juan de la Cosa makes a voyage to South America.
* A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Sultanate of Sennar (History of Sudan).
* In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli become involved in a scheme to divert the Arno River, cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, fails to follow da Vinci’s design, and the project is a major failure.
* The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.
* Raphael paints "The Marriage of the Virgin", which exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art.
* Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.

Births

* January 17 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
* April 30 - Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (d. 1570)
* May 5 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579)
* July 18 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
* August 6 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574)
* November - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573)
* November 13 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
*"date unknown"
**Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي), author of "Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa"
**Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (d. 1528)
**Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian (d. 1568)
**Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (d. 1556)
*"probable" - Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1568)

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Deaths

* April - Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (b. 1457)
* June 19 - Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
* July 2 - Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
* July 29 - Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435)
* September 9 - Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), astrologer (b. 1467)
* September 10 - Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
* November 26 - Queen Isabella of Castile (b. 1451)
* December 21 - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
*"date unknown"
**Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Spanish author
**Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (b. 1454)
**Ch'oe Pu, Korean official and venturer to China (b. 1454): "See also ."