1495

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s 1470s 1480s – 1490s – 1500s 1510s 1520s
Years:	1492 1493 1494 – 1495 – 1496 1497 1498

1495 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1495 (MCDXCV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

Events of 1495

February 22 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as viceroy.
May 26 – A Spanish army under Gonzalo de Córdoba lands in Calabria, with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples.
June 1 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
June 28 – Battle of Seminara: Cordoba and Ferrante are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny.
July 6 – Battle of Fornovo: The French army under King Charles secures its retreat from Italy, by defeating a combined Milanese-Venetian force under Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua.
October 25 – King Manuel I of Portugal begins his reign.
November 30 – An explosion at Vyborg Castle deters the Russian forces who have invaded Sweden through Karelia.
December 25 – Second Battle of Acentejo: The Spanish crush the native forces of the island of Tenerife, leading to the subjugation of this last bastion of resistance in the Canary Islands.

The Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire is founded.
Henry VII of England commissions the world's first dry dock at Portsmouth.
The University of Aberdeen is founded by Bishop William Elphinstone.
Voyage of João Fernandes Lavrador and Pedro Barcelos to Greenland. During their voyage they discovered the land to which they gave the name of Labrador (lavrador, farmer)

March 6 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)
March 8 – John of God, Spanish friar and saint (d. 1550)
April 16 – Petrus Apianus, German humanist (d. 1557)
November 21 – John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563)
December 5 – Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
date unknown
- Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (d. 1540)
- Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (d. 1568)
probable
- Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)
- Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (d. 1545)
- Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer (d. 1560)

January 11 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
February 25 – Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (b. 1459)
May 31 – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1415)
September – Vlad Călugărul
September 14 – Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (b. 1492)
October 25 – King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
December 18 – King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
December 21 – Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (b. c. 1431)