- 1494
Year 1494 was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar ).Events
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January 25 - Alfonso II becomes King ofNaples .
*May 3 -Christopher Columbus first spotsJamaica .
*May 31 -First Battle of Acentejo : Natives of the island ofTenerife , known asGuanches , defeat the invading Spanish forces.
*June 7 -Treaty of Tordesillas :Spain andPortugal divide theNew World between themselves.
*October 22 -Ludovico Sforza becomesDuke ofMilan , and starts a chain of events that leads to the First Italian War.Undated
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Amda Seyon II succeeds his fatherEskender asEmperor of Ethiopia .
*Na'od succeeds his nephewAmda Seyon II asEmperor of Ethiopia .
*Aztec forces conquer and sackMitla .
* Italy is invaded byCharles VIII of France .Births
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February 2 -Bona Sforza , queen ofSigismund I of Poland (d.1557 )
*April 9 -Francois Rabelais , French Renaissance writer (d.1553 )
*April 20 -Johannes Agricola , German Protestant reformer (d.1566 )
*May 24 -Pontormo , Italian painter (d.1557 )
*September 5 -Hans Sachs , German "Meistersinger" (d.1576 )
*September 12 - KingFrancis I of France (d.1547 )
*November 6 -Suleiman the Magnificent ,Ottoman Sultan (d.1566 )
*"date unknown"
**Saitō Dōsan , Japanese warlord (d.1556 )
**John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (d.1554 )
**Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda , Spanish philosopher and theologian (d.1573 )
**Ambrosius Holbein , German painter (d.1519 )
**Alonso Álvarez de Pineda , Spanish explorer and cartographer (d.1519 )
**Hans Tausen , Danish religious reformer (d.1561 )
**Qiu Ying , Chinese painter (d.1552 )
**William Tyndale , English reformer and martyr (d.1536 )Deaths
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January 11 -Domenico Ghirlandaio , Italian artist (b.1449 )
*January 25 - KingFerdinand I of Naples (b.1423 )
*August 1 -Giovanni Santi , artist and father ofRaphael (b. c. 1435)
*August 11 -Hans Memling , Flemish painter (b. c.1430 )
*September 24 -Poliziano , Italian humanist (b.1454 )
*October 26 -Amda Seyon II ,Emperor of Ethiopia (b. c.1487 )
*November 8 -Melozzo da Forlì , painter (b. c. 1438)
*November 17 -Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Italian humanist (b.1463 )
*December 20 -Matteo Maria Boiardo , Italian poet (b. c.1434 )
*"date unknown"
**Eskender ,Emperor of Ethiopia (b.1472 )
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