1504

Bay of Naples.

September 8: Michelangelo's David.

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

Events

January–June

• January 1 – French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.
• January 21 – After the death of Sten Sture the Elder on December 14 the year before, Svante Nilsson is elected new Regent of Sweden.
• January 31 – Treaty of Lyon: France cedes Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon who becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
• February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse this night to convince Jamaican tribesmen to provide him with supplies.
• April 1 – English guilds subject to state control.
• April 23 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, routes troops to Bavaria.

July–December

• September 8 – Michelangelo's sculpture of David is erected in Florence.
• September 22 – A settled engagement is arranged between Karel of Luxembourg and Claudia the Beaujeu.
• September 22 – Treaty of Blois: Philip I of Castile, Maximilian I and Louis XII agree terms.
• October 12 – Isabella I of Castile signs her testament.
• November 7 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage, during which he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
• November 26 – Isabella I of Castile, Catholic Queen of Castile and Aragon, dies, ending her patronage for Columbus. The Crown of Castile passes to her daughter Joanna.
• about December 8: Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah issued the Oran fatwa for Muslims in Spain. (1 Rajab 910 AH in Hijri calendar, Gregorian date is approximate)

Date unknown

• Babur besieges and captures Kabul.
• Islamization of the Sudan region: A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Sultanate of Sennar.
• Sheikh Ahmad, final leader of the Great Horde, is last heard of as a Lithuanian prisoner at Vilnius.
• Juan de la Cosa begins his first independent voyage, to the Isthmus of Panama.
• In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò 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.
• Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.
• Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.
• Matthias Grünewald paints a Crucifixion.
• 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.

Births

• January 1 – Caspar Creuziger, German humanist (d. 1548)
• January 3 – Gian Girolamo Albani, Italian cardinal (d. 1591)
• January 17 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
• January 28 – Anna II, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, German noblewoman, reigning from 1516 until her death (d. 1574)
• February 3 – Scipione Rebiba, Italian cardinal (d. 1577)
• March 31 – Guru Angad, Indian religious leader (d. 1552)
• April 12 – Alessandro Campeggio, Italian cardinal (d. 1554)
• April 30 – Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter (d. 1570)
• May 5 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579)
• May 29 – Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (d. 1573)
• June 24 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (d. 1565)
• July 18 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
• August 1 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Danish princess (d. 1547)
• August 6 – Matthew Parker, English Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574)
• September 4 – John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Prince of Anahlt-Dessau (1516–1544) and Anhalt-Zerbst (1544–1551) (d. 1551)
• September 20 – Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1559)
• October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligraphist and noted poet (d. 1551)
• November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573)
• November 13 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1567)
• c. December – Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (d. 1556)
• December 31 – Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1538)
• date unknown
  • Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي), Sunni Islamic scholar, author of Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa
  • John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English Tudor nobleman and politician (executed 1553)
  • Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (burned at the stake 1528)
  • Dirk Philips, early Dutch Anabaptist writer and theologian (d. 1568)

Deaths

Isabella I of Castile died on November 26, 1504

• April – Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (b. 1457)
• June 19 – Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
• July 2 – Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
• July 29 – Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435)
• August – Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (b. 1454)
• September 9 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), astrologer (b. 1467)
• September 10 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
• November 26 – Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
• December 21 – Berthold von Henneberg, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
• date unknown
  • Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Spanish author
  • Choe Bu, Korean official and venturer to China (b. 1454)

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