1496
Calendar year
Year 1496 (MCDXCVI leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events
February – Pietro Bembo 's Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chalabrilem liber , a description of a journey to Mount Etna , is published in Venice by Aldus Manutius , the first book printed in the old-style serif or humanist typeface cut by Francesco Griffo (known from the 20th century as Bembo ) and with early adoption of the semicolon (dated 1495 according to the more veneto February 24 – King Henry VII of England signs the commercial treaty Intercursus Magnus Venice , Florence , and the cities of the Hanseatic League and the Netherlands.[ 1] March 5 – Henry VII of England issues letters patent to Italian-born adventurer John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover unknown lands.[ 2] March 10 – Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere . During his time here he has forcibly subjugated the island, enslaved the Taíno , and laid the basis for a system of land grants tied to the Taíno's enslavement.June 12 – Jesus College, Cambridge , is founded.[ 1] July – Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba capture Atella after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples , the Comte de Montpensier. Ferdinand II of Naples is restored to his throne.August 5 – Bartholomew Columbus , brother of Christopher Columbus , formally founds the city of Santo Domingo (first settled in March ) on Hispaniola (in the modern-day Dominican Republic ), making it the oldest permanent European settlement in the New World .September 21 –25 – James IV of Scotland invades Northumberland , in support of the pretender to the English throne , Perkin Warbeck .[ 2] October 20 – Joanna of Castile , second daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile , heiress to Castile , marries the archduke Philip , heir through his mother to the Burgundian Netherlands , and through his father to the Holy Roman Empire .December 5 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of "heretics" from the country.Date unknown – Jan de Groote, a Dutchman, obtains a grant for the north ferry from the mainland of Scotland to Orkney , from King James IV of Scotland .
Births
March 18 – Mary Tudor , Queen of Louis XII of France , daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1533 )May 12 – King Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560 )July 10 – Johann Forster , German theologian (d. 1558 )August 28 – Konrad Heresbach , German Calvinist (d. 1576 )September 27 – Hieronymus Łaski , Polish diplomat (d. 1542 )October 20 – Claude, Duke of Guise , French aristocrat and general (d. 1550 )November 23 – Clément Marot , French poet of the Renaissance period (d. 1544 )December 20 – Joseph ha-Kohen , Spanish-born French Jewish historian and physician (d. 1575 )December 21 – Elisabeth Corvinus , Hungarian princess (d. 1508 )date unknown
Lazare de Baïf , French diplomat and author (d. 1547 )João de Barros , Portuguese historian (d. 1570 )Cuauhtémoc , 11th Tlatoani Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1520–1521, (d. 1521 )[ 3] Dirck Jacobsz. , Dutch painter (d. 1567 )Richard Maitland , Scottish poet (d. 1586 )Louise de Montmorency , French noblewoman (d. 1547 )Martín Ocelotl , Mexican priest (d. c. 1537 )William Roper , son-in-law and biographer of Thomas More (d. 1578 )Giovanni Battista da Sangallo , Italian architect (d. 1548 )Menno Simons , Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1561 )Agostino Steuco , Italian humanist scholar (d. 1548 )Johann Walter , Lutheran composer and poet (d. 1570 )probable – Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (d. 1549 )
Deaths
January 1 – Charles, Count of Angoulême (b. 1459 )February 24 – Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1445 )March 4 – Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (b. 1427 )March 12 – Johann Heynlin , German humanist scholar (b. c. 1425 )April 16 – Charles II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1489 )April 29 – Fernando de Almada, 2nd Count of Avranches (b. c. 1430 )August 15 – Infanta Isabella of Portugal , Queen of Castile and León (b. 1428 )August 28 – Kanutus Johannis , Swedish Franciscan friar, writer and book collectorSeptember 7 – King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469 )September 15 – Hugh Clopton , Lord Mayor of London (b. c. 1440 )September 25 – Piero Capponi , Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447 )September 28 – Boček IV of Poděbrady , Bohemian nobleman, eldest son of King George of Podebrady (b. 1442 )October 15 – Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443 )November 1 – Filippo Buonaccorsi (Filip Callimachus) , Italian humanist writer (b. 1437 )date unknown
probable – Jan IV of Oświęcim , duke of Oświęcim
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