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Calendar year
Year 1494 (
MCDXCIV) was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
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January 4 – The
Cetinje Octoechos (Цетињски октоих, an
Eastern Orthodox
octoechos (liturgy), first tone), the first
incunabulum written in the
Serbian recension of
Church Slavonic, and the first book printed in
Cyrillic in
Southeast Europe, is completed in
Cetinje.
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January 25 –
Alfonso II becomes King of
Naples.
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May –
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, recognises the pretender
Perkin Warbeck as rightful
King of England.
[1]
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May 5 –
Christopher Columbus first sights
Jamaica.
[2]
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May 7 – The infant
Amda Seyon II succeeds his father
Eskender as
Emperor of Ethiopia.
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May 31 –
First Battle of Acentejo: Natives of the island of
Tenerife, known as
Guanches, defeat the invading
Spanish forces.
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June 7 –
Treaty of Tordesillas:
Spain and
Portugal divide the
New World between themselves.
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June 25 – The
first hurricane ever observed by Europeans strikes the Spanish settlement of
La Isabela, on
Hispaniola.
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October 22 –
Ludovico Sforza becomes
Duke of Milan, and invites
Charles VIII of France to invade Italy in support of his claim, beginning the
Italian War of 1494–98.
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October 26 –
Amda Seyon II is deposed and killed, and his uncle
Na'od succeeds him as
Emperor of Ethiopia.
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November 9 – The
Medici Bank is insolvent and the
House of Medici is expelled from
Florence.
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November 10 – Fra
Luca Pacioli's
Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalità is published in
Venice, containing the first printed account of
algebra in the vernacular, and the first published description of the
double-entry accounting system.
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November 17 –
Italian War of 1494–98: The armies of
Charles VIII of France enter
Florence.
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December 25 –
Second Battle of Acentejo: The Spanish crush the native forces of the island of
Tenerife, leading to the subjugation of this last bastion of resistance in the
Canary Islands.
Date unknown
Births
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February 2 –
Bona Sforza, queen of
Sigismund I of Poland (d.
1557)
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February 11 –
Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (d.
1574)
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February 20 –
Johan Friis, Danish statesman (d.
1570)
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March 24 –
Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d.
1555)
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March 25 –
Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, Margravine (d.
1518)
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April 4 –
Ambrosius Moibanus, German theologian (d.
1554)
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April 20 –
Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d.
1566)
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April 25 –
Juan Téllez-Girón, 4th Count of Ureña, Spanish count (d.
1558)
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May 24 –
Pontormo, Italian painter (d.
1557)
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August 18 –
Johannes Scheubel, German mathematician (d.
1570)
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September 8 –
Sri Chand, Indian founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (d.
1629)
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September 11 –
Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders (1518–1538) (d.
1572)
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September 12 – King
Francis I of France (d.
1547)
[3]
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October 31 –
Wolfgang of the Palatinate, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1524–1558), governor of the Upper Palatinate (d.
1558)
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November 5 –
Hans Sachs, German meistersinger ("mastersinger") (d.
1576)
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November 6 –
Suleiman the Magnificent,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1566)
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November 12 –
Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen, Princess of Anhalt by birth, Duchess consort of Saxony (d.
1521)
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November (probable) –
François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer (d.
1553)
- date unknown
Deaths
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January 11 –
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b.
1449)
[4]
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January 20 –
Seongjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (b.
1457)
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January 25 – King
Ferdinand I of Naples (b.
1423)
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May 7 –
Eskender,
Emperor of Ethiopia (b.
1471)
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August 1 –
Giovanni Santi, Italian artist and father of
Raphael (b. c. 1435)
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August 11 –
Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. c.
1430)
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September 24 –
Poliziano, Italian humanist (b.
1454)
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October 21 –
Gian Galeazzo Sforza,
Duke of Milan (b.
1469)
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October 26 –
Amda Seyon II,
Emperor of Ethiopia (b. c.
1487)
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November 8 –
Melozzo da Forlì, Italian painter (b. c. 1438)
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November 15 –
William Calthorpe, English knight (b.
1410)
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November 16 –
Theda Ukena, countess regent of East Frisia (b.
1432)
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November 17 –
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (b.
1463)
[5]
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December 19 or
December 20 –
Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (b. c.
1434-
1441)
References