1493

Years: 1490 1491 1492 - 1493 - 1494 1495 1496
Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s
Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century

1493 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

1493 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

[edit] Events

January - Ivan III of Russia declares himself gosudar' vseja Rusi - "Lord of all Rus'".
January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World.
March 15 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
May 4 - Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line.
July 28 - Great fire in Moscow.
September 9 - Battle of Krbava field between defending Croatian nobles and invading Ottoman Turk forces.
November 19 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
December 23 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.

March 15 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (died 1567)
June 5 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (died 1555)
September 28 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (died c1545)
October 14 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (died 1568)
November 11 (or December 17 - Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (died 1541)
November 12 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (died 1560)
date unknown
- Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (died 1541)
- Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (died 1573)
- Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (died 1580)
probable
- Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (died 1560)