1494

Year '1494' was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

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1494

Undated

Births

Deaths

1494

★ January 25 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.

★ May 3 - Christopher Columbus first spots Jamaica.

★ May 31 - Natives of the island of Tenerife, known as Guanches, defeat invading Spanish forces at the First Battle of Acentejo.

★ June 7 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

★ October 22 - Ludovico Sforza becomes Duke of Milan, and starts a chain of events that leads to the First Italian War.

Undated

★ The University of Aberdeen is founded by the bishop of Aberdeen.

★ Amda Seyon II succeeds his father Eskender as Emperor of Ethiopia.

★ ''Oktoih,'' the first book produced in Serbian language in Cetinje.

★ Na'od succeeds his nephew Amda Seyon II as Emperor of Ethiopia.

★ Aztec forces conquer and sack Mitla.

Births

★ February 2 - Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (died 1557)

★ April 9 Francois Rabelais, French Renaissance writer (died 1553)

★ April 20 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (died 1566)

★ May 24 - Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)

★ September 5 - Hans Sachs, German ''Meistersinger'' (died 1576)

★ September 12 - King Francis I of France (died 1547)

★ November 6 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (died 1566)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Saitō Dōsan, Japanese warlord (died 1556)

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★ John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (died 1554)

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★ Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (died 1573)

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★ Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (died 1519)

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★ Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (died 1519)

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★ Hans Tausen, Danish religious reformer (died 1561)

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★ Qiu Ying, Chinese painter (died 1552)

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★ William Tyndale, Reformer and Martyr

Deaths

★ January 11 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (born 1449)

★ January 25 - King Ferdinand I of Naples (born 1423)

★ August 1 - Giovanni Santi, artist and father of Raphael (born c. 1435)

★ August 11 - Hans Memling, Flemish painter (born c1430)

★ September 24 - Poliziano, Italian humanist (born 1454)

★ October 26 - Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (born c1487)

★ November 8 - Melozzo da Forlì, painter (born c. 1438)

★ November 17 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (born 1463)

★ December 20 - Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (born c1434)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (born 1472)