1504

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

Events

January–June

* January 1 – French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish, under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.
* January 21 – After the death of Sten Sture the Elder on December 14 the year before, Svante Nilsson is elected the new Regent of Sweden.
* January 31 – Treaty of Lyon: France cedes Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon, who becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
* February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse this night, to convince the indigenous Jamaican people to provide him with supplies.
* April 1 – English guilds become subject to state control.
* April 23 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, routes troops to Bavaria.

July–December

* September 8 – Michelangelo's sculpture of ''David'' is completed in Florence.
* September 13 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of Capilla Real, a Royal Chapel, to be built in Granada.
* September 22 – Treaty of Blois: Philip I of Castile, Maximilian I and Louis XII agree to terms.
* October 12 – Isabella I of Castile signs her will and testament.
* November 7 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage, during which he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
* November 26 – On the death of Isabella I of Castile, Catholic Queen of Castile and Aragon, the Crown of Castile passes to her daughter Joanna.
* December 8 (approximate date) – Islamic scholar Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah issues the Oran fatwa for Muslims in Spain (1 Rajab 910 AH in Hijri calendar, Gregorian date is approximate).
* December 24 – Knut Alvsson's rebellion was crushed at Olsborg Castle in Båhuslen.

Date unknown

* Babur besieges and captures Kabul.
* Islamization of the Sudan region: A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Sultanate of Sennar.
* Sheikh Ahmad, final leader of the Great Horde, is last heard of as a Lithuanian prisoner at Vilnius.
* Juan de la Cosa begins his first independent voyage, to the Isthmus of Panama.
* In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò 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.
* Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.
* Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of ''Demosthenes'' in Venice.
* Matthias Grünewald paints a ''Crucifixion''.
* 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.

Births

* January 1 – Caspar Creuziger, German humanist (d. 1548)
* January 17 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
* January 28 – Anna II, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, German noblewoman, reigning from 1516 until her death (d. 1574)
* February 3 – Scipione Rebiba, Italian cardinal (d. 1577)
* March 31 – Guru Angad, Indian religious leader (d. 1552)
* April 12 – Alessandro Campeggio, Italian cardinal (d. 1554)
* April 30 – Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter (d. 1570)
* May 5 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579)
* May 29 – Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (d. 1573)
* June 24 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (d. 1565)
* July 18 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
* August 1 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Danish princess (d. 1547)
* August 6 – Matthew Parker, English Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574)
* September 4 – John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Prince of Anahlt-Dessau (1516–1544) and Anhalt-Zerbst (1544–1551) (d. 1551)
* September 20 – Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1559)
* October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligraphist and noted poet (d. 1551)
* November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573)
* November 13 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1567)
* December – Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (d. 1556)
* December 31 – Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1538)
* ''date unknown''
** Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي), Egyptian Sunni Islamic scholar, author of ''Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa''
** John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English Tudor nobleman and politician (executed 1553)
** Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (burned at the stake 1528)
** Dirk Philips, early Dutch Anabaptist writer and theologian (d. 1568)

Deaths

* January 9 – Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder (b. 1418)
* January 27 – Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo (b. 1438)
* February 17 – Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1447)
* April 15 – Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (b. 1457)
* May 31 – Engelbert II of Nassau (b. 1451)
* June – Lê Hiến Tông, Emperor of the Lê Dynasty
* June 19 – Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
* July 2 – Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
* July 29 – Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435)
* August – Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (b. 1454)
* August 20 – Ruprecht of the Palatinate (Bishop of Freising) (b. 1481)
* August 22 – Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1489–1503) (b. 1462)
*August 28 – John Paston, English gentleman known from the Paston Letters (b. 1444)
* September 10 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
* September 15 – Elisabeth of Bavaria (b. 1478)
* September 22 – Jan II the Mad, Duke of Żagań (1439–1449 and 1461–1468 and again in 1472) (b. 1435)
* September 24 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), Italian astrologer (b. 1467)
* October 12 – John Corvinus, Hungarian noble (b. 1473)
* November 9 – King Frederick IV of Naples (b. 1452)
* November 26 – Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
* December – Lê Túc Tông, Emperor of the Lê Dynasty
* December 21 – Berthold von Henneberg, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
* ''date unknown''
** Abdal-Karim Khan Astrakhani, Khan of Astrakhan
** Abu Abdallah IV, Sultan of Tlemcen
** Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya, first Wattasid Sultan of Morocco and King of Fez
** Éamonn Mág Samhradháin, Lord of Tullyhaw
** Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk, Indian-born founder of the Berar Sultanate
** Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Spanish author
** Qasim Barid I, founder of the Bidar Sultanate
** Vira Ravi Ravi Varma, Raja of Venad
** Choe Bu, Korean official and venturer to China (b. 1454)

References

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