1494
Information about 1494
| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s |
| Years: | 1491 1492 1493 - 1494 - 1495 1496 1497 |
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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.
- Invasion of Italy by Charles VIII of France.
| Gregorian calendar | 1494 MCDXCIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2247 |
| Armenian calendar | 943 ԹՎ ՋԽԳ |
| Bah' calendar | -350 – -349 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2038 |
| Chinese calendar | 4130/4190-7-22 (癸丑年七月廿二日) — to — 4131/4191-7-2(甲寅年七月初二日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1210 – 1211 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1486 – 1487 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5254 – 5255 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1549 – 1550 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1416 – 1417 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4595 – 4596 |
| Holocene calendar | 11494 |
| Iranian calendar | 872 – 873 |
| Islamic calendar | 899 – 900 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiō 0 (明応0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2154 (皇紀2154年) |
| Julian calendar | 1539 |
| Korean calendar | 3827 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2037 |
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)
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- Saitō Dōsan, Japanese warlord (died 1556)
- John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (died 1554)
- Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (died 1573)
- Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (died 1519)
- Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (died 1519)
- Hans Tausen, Danish religious reformer (died 1561)
- Qiu Ying, Chinese painter (died 1552)
- 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
- Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (born 1472)
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- The transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age
- Beginning of the Ottoman Empire, early expansion into the Balkans
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- 1402: Ottoman and Timurid Empires fight at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I.
- 1402: The conquest of the Canary Islands signals the beginning of the Spanish Empire.
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Ethiopia - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (1478-1494) Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (1494) Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (1494-1508) Adal Sultanate - Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din, Sultan (1488 - 1518) Kongo
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This is the calendar for any common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E). Examples: Gregorian year 2003 or Julian year 1903 (see bottom tables).
(A common year is a year with 365 days — in other words, not a leap year, which has 366.
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Julian calendar was a reform of the Roman calendar which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the
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Alfonso II of Naples (November 4, 1448 – December 18, 1495), also called Alfonso II d'Aragon, though he was King of Naples only from January 25, 1494 to 1495—with the title King of Naples and Jerusalem—was a patron of Renaissance poets and builders during
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Comune di Napoli
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Location of the city of Naples (red dot) within Italy.
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Region Campania
Province Province of Naples
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Location of the city of Naples (red dot) within Italy.
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May 3 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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