Events

• Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa.
• Hernán Cortés, conquistador, arrives in the New World at Santo Domingo in Hispaniola, age 22.
• The statue Laocoön and his Sons is discovered in Rome.

Births

• April 7: Francis Xavier, Jesuit Saint.
• Possibly Lady Margaret Lee, sister of the poet Thomas Wyatt and favourite lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn.
• Johannes Lupi, Franco-Flemish composer.

Deaths

• May 20 - Christopher Columbus explorer, sailor, Catholic
• September 25 - death of Philip I of Castile
• Alexander King of Poland, grand-duke of Lithuania, fourth son of Casimir IV.

Heads of states

• Navarre - John of Albret King of Navarre (1484-1516)