1504

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

[edit] Events of 1504

Bay of Naples.

January 1 - French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
January 31 - By 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 ceasefire.
April 1 - English guilds enter state control.
April 23 - King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria.

September 8 - Michelangelo's sculpture of David is erected in Florence.
September 22 - Settle engagement 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.

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.
Grünenwald: "Crucifixion".
Voyage of Juan de la Cosa is made to South America.
Erasmus: Enchiridion militis chritiani ("Handbook of the Christian Soldier").
A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Black Sultanate (As Saltana az Zarqa) at Sennar (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah)).
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, failed to follow da Vinci’s design, and the project was 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" (exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art).
Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.

**1504 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1504 MDIV
Ab urbe condita	2257
Armenian calendar	953 ԹՎ ՋԾԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-340 – -339
Buddhist calendar	2048
Chinese calendar	4140/4200-12-14 (癸亥年十二月十四日) — to — 4141/4201-11-26 (甲子年十一月廿六日)
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 4 (文亀4年) — changed to — Eishō 1 (永正元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2164 (皇紀2164年)
- Jōmon Era	11504
Julian calendar	1549
Korean calendar	3837
Thai solar calendar	2047
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