1496

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1493 1494 1495 – 1496 – 1497 1498 1499

1496 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1496 (MCDXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1496 1.1 Undated 2 Ongoing 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events of 1496

• January 3 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
• March 5 – England King Henry VII issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover unknown lands.
• March – Santo Domingo is discovered.
• March 10 – Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
• July – Spanish forces under Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordoba capture Atella after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier. Ferrante II is restored to the throne of Naples.

Undated

• Jesus College (University of Cambridge) is founded.
• Henry VII of England signs the commercial treaty Magnus Intercursus with Venice, Florence, and the villes of the Hanse and Pays-Bas.
• Joanna, second daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, heiress to Castile, marries the archduke Philip, heir through his mother to the Burgundian Netherlands, and through his father to the Holy Roman Empire.
• Christopher Columbus forcibly subjugates the island Hispaniola, enslaves the Amerindians and lays the basis for a system of land grants tied to the Amerindians' labor service.

Ongoing

• Charles VIII's Italian War (1494–98)

1496 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1496 MCDXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2249
Armenian calendar	945 ԹՎ ՋԽԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-348 – -347
Bengali calendar	903
Berber calendar	2446
Buddhist calendar	2040
Burmese calendar	858
Byzantine calendar	7004 – 7005
Chinese calendar	乙卯年十二月十六日 (4132/4192-12-16) — to — 丙辰年十一月廿七日 (4133/4193-11-27)
Coptic calendar	1212 – 1213
Ethiopian calendar	1488 – 1489
Hebrew calendar	5256 – 5257
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1552 – 1553
- Shaka Samvat	1418 – 1419
- Kali Yuga	4597 – 4598
Holocene calendar	11496
Iranian calendar	874 – 875
Islamic calendar	901 – 902
Japanese calendar	Meiō 5 (明応5年)
Korean calendar	3829
Thai solar calendar	2039

Births

• March 18 – Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)
• May 12 – King Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
• August 28 – Konrad Heresbach, German Calvinist (d. 1576)
• October 20 – Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)
• December 20 – Joseph ha-Kohen, historian and physician (d. 1575)
• date unknown
  • Lazare de Baïf, French diplomat and author (d. 1547)
  • João de Barros, Portuguese historian (d. 1570)
  • François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (d. 1570)
  • Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish conquistador (d. 1584)
  • Dirck Jacobsz, Dutch painter (d. 1567)
  • Gregorio López de Tovar, Spanish humanist and lawyer (d. 1560)
  • Richard Maitland, Scottish poet (d. 1586)
  • Clément Marot, French poet (d. 1544)
  • Louise de Montmorency, French noblewoman (d. 1547)
  • Martin Ocelotl, Mexican priest (d. c. 1537)
  • William Roper, son-in-law and biographer of Thomas More (d. 1578)
  • Giovanni Battista da Sangallo, Italian architect (d. 1548)
  • Menno Simons, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1561)
  • Agostino Steuco, Italian humanist scholar (d. 1548)
  • Johann Walter, Lutheran composer and poet (d. 1570)
• probable – Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (d. 1549)

Deaths

• January 1 – Charles, Count of Angoulême (b. 1459)
• February 24 – Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1445)
• March 4 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
• March 12 – Johann Heynlin, German humanist scholar (b. c. 1425)
• April 16 – Charles II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1489)
• April 29 – Dom Fernando de Almada, Count of Avranches (b. c. 1430)
• August 15 – Infanta Isabel of Portugal, queen of Castile and Leon (b. 1428)
• September 7 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
• September 15 – Hugh Clopton, Lord Mayor of London (b. c. 1440)
• September 25 – Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
• October 15 – Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443)
• November 1 – Filip Callimachus, Italian humanist writer (b. 1437)
• date unknown
  • Richard Bell, Bishop of Carlisle
  • Alexander Inglis, Scottish clergyman
  • Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1458)
  • Piero Pollaiuolo, Italian painter (b. 1443)
  • Qaitbay, sultan of Egypt
  • Ercole de' Roberti, Italian artist (b. c. 1451)
• probable – Jan IV Oświęcimski, duke of Oświęcim