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Calendar year
Year 1496 (
MCDXCVI ) was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–December
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 with
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 (emperor) of
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 collector
September 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
References