Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1501 1502 1503 – 1504 – 1505 1506 1507

1504 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

Contents 1 Events of 1504 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1504

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Births

1504 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1504 MDIV
Ab urbe condita	2257
Armenian calendar	953 ԹՎ ՋԾԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-340 – -339
Bengali calendar	911
Berber calendar	2454
Buddhist calendar	2048
Burmese calendar	866
Byzantine calendar	7012 – 7013
Chinese calendar	癸亥年十二月十四日 (4140/4200-12-14) — to — 甲子年十一月廿六日 (4141/4201-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1220 – 1221
Ethiopian calendar	1496 – 1497
Hebrew calendar	5264 – 5265
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1559 – 1560
- Shaka Samvat	1426 – 1427
- Kali Yuga	4605 – 4606
Holocene calendar	11504
Iranian calendar	882 – 883
Islamic calendar	909 – 910
Japanese calendar	Bunki 4Eishō 1 (永正元年)
Korean calendar	3837
Thai solar calendar	2047
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• January 17 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
• April 16 – Shaun Drennan (d. 1586)
• 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
  • John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Tudor nobleman and politician (d. 1553)
  • 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)

See also Category: 1504 births.

[edit] 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 Category: 1504 deaths.