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Years:
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1506
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Decades
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1470s
1480s
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Centuries
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15th century
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Events
January 1
- French troops surrender
Gaeta
to the Spanish under Cordoba.
January 31
-
France
cedes
Naples
to
Aragon
.
February 29
-
Christopher Columbus
uses his knowldege of a lunar
eclipse
that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
finishes
his sculpture of David
-
August 8
it is erected in Florence.
Moldavia
, Stephan IIIrd 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
return 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
.
Births
January 17
-
Pope Pius V
August 6
-
Matthew Parker
,
Archbishop of Canterbury
(d.
1575
Heinrich Bullinger
, Swiss reformer
Francesco Primaticcio
, Italian painter, architect and sculptor.
Deaths
November 26
-
Isabella of Castile
,
Queen of Castile
, the wife of
Ferdinand II of Aragon
, the mother of
Catherine of Aragon
, and the patron of
Christopher Columbus
.
Philibert II of Savoy
,
Duke of Savoy
Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara
,
Astronomer
and teacher of
Nicolaus Copernicus
Thomas Stanley
, 1st Earl of Derby
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