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Year 1496 (MCDXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
- 1 de enero – En Venecia , el historiador Marino Sanuto comienza el primer volumen de I Diarii , un diario de los acontecimientos de su propia vida y, más importante aún, un registro diario de los sucesos de la República de Venecia y de los que le comunicaban los representantes venecianos en otras partes de Europa. Lo que hoy se describe como «probablemente el más extenso, completo y valioso jamás escrito por un solo hombre» [ 1 ] , continúa su trabajo diario durante más de 37 años, finalizando el 30 de junio de 1533. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
- 24 de febrero – El rey Enrique VII de Inglaterra firma el tratado comercial Intercursus Magnus con Venecia , Florencia y las ciudades de la Liga Hanseática y los Países Bajos. [ 4 ]
- Febrero – Aldus Manutius publica en Venecia el Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chalabrilem liber de Pietro Bembo , una descripción de un viaje al Monte Etna , el primer libro impreso con la tipografía serif o humanista de estilo antiguo cortada por Francesco Griffo (conocido desde el siglo XX como Bembo ) y con la adopción temprana del punto y coma (fechado en 1495 según el more veneto ).
- 5 de marzo – Enrique VII de Inglaterra emite cartas patentes al aventurero de origen italiano John Cabot y a sus hijos, autorizándolos a descubrir tierras desconocidas. [ 5 ]
- 10 de marzo – Cristóbal Colón parte de La Española rumbo a España, poniendo fin a su segunda visita al hemisferio occidental . Durante su estancia, sometió por la fuerza la isla, esclavizó a los taínos y sentó las bases de un sistema de concesión de tierras vinculado a la esclavitud de estos.
Abril – junio
- 16 de abril – Filippo II se convierte en el nuevo gobernante del Ducado de Saboya tras la muerte de su sobrino nieto de 6 años, el duque Carlo II Giovanni Amedeo . [ 6 ]
- April 23– In the Marquisate of Mantua on the Italian peninsula, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua decrees that all Jews in Mantua are to wear a yellow badge to distinguish themselves from the Christian residents of Mantua. He modifies the ruling three days later to declare that a Jewish woman may wear a yellow veil over her face in place of the badge.[7]
- April 26–King Jan I Olbracht of Poland issues the Piotrków Privilege as a reward to members of nobility who financially supported his invasion of Moldavia. The Privilege prohibits the enslaved serfs from leaving their owners' land without permission, and bans city dwellers from buying land.[8]
- May 2– The Marquis of Mantua makes a further adjustment to his April 23 decree on Jewish identification, making further allowances to the dress code of Jewish women, and excusing the requirement of wearing a veil to cover the face. Unmarried women must still wear yellow headgear and drape a veil over their shoulders; married women are excused from covering their faces with veils but must wear headgear; and widows may wear their color of choice for headgear.[7]
- May 14– At Augsburg, Maximilian, King of the Romans, grants an audience to Sir Christopher Urswick, the Kingdom of England's ambassador to the Empire, and informs his advisers that he believes the Ambassador is a spy gathering intelligence on the Empire's intentions toward England. Zacharia Contarini, the Empire's ambassador to France, then sends the report to the Doge of the Republic of Venice, Agostino Barbarigo.[9]
- June 12–Jesus College, Cambridge, is founded.[4]
July–September
- July 5– In the Canary Islands, the native kings of Tenerife surrender to the Spanish conquistador Alonso Fernández de Lugo.
- July 21– Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba capture Atella after a siege.[10] Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier. King Ferdinand II of Naples is restored to his throne.[11]
- 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 7–Federico of Aragon becomes the King of Naples upon the death of his nephew, King Ferdinando II.
- September 21– King James IV of Scotland and his army invade Northumberland in the Kingdom of England, in support of the pretender to the English throne, Perkin Warbeck. The invaders leave on September 25 and travel back to Scotland.[5]
October–December
- October 20–Joanna of Castile, second daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, heiress to Castile, marries the archdukePhilip, heir through his mother to the Burgundian Netherlands, and through his father to the Holy Roman Empire.
- November 20– King Henry VII of England summons the English Parliament to assemble starting on January 16.
- November 27– Led by Prince Prataparudra Deva, son of the Emperor Purushottama Deva, the Gajapati Empire (now India's state of Odisha) invades the Vijayanagara Empire (now the Karnataka state) and its armies advance as far as the Penna River, where they are stopped by a force commanded by the Vijayanagara sultan Tuluva Narasa Nayaka, and are turned back.[12]
- December 5– King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
Births
- March 18–Mary Tudor, Queen of Louis XII of France, daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1533)
- May 12– King Gustav Vasa 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)[13]
- 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
- María Pacheco, Spanish heroine and defender of Toledo (d. 1531)
- Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1567)
- Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester, English noble (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
- Richard Bell, Bishop of Carlisle
- Alexander Inglis, Scottish clergyman
- Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1458)
- Piero del Pollaiuolo, Italian painter (b. 1443)
- Qaitbay, sultan of Egypt
- Ercole de' Roberti, Italian artist (b. c. 1451)
- probable–Jan IV of Oświęcim, duke of Oświęcim
References
- ↑William Brooks Greenlee, The Voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral to Brazil and India: From Contemporary Documents and Narratives 2017 (Taylor & Francis, 2017) ISBN 9781317012245
- ↑David Jayne Hill, A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe, Volume 2 (Longmans, Green, and Company, 1905) p.236<
- ↑J. Schor, History of Venice: From the Beginning Down to the Present Time (Colombo Coen, 1871) p.138
- 12Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- 12Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 189–192. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑"Filippo II", Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- 12Dana E. Katz, The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) p.181 ISBN 9780812240856
- ↑Jachna, Artur (1 June 2020). "524. rocznica Statutów Piotrkowskich"[524th anniversary of the Piotrków Statutes] (in Polish). Małopolskie Centrum Edukacji "MEC". Retrieved 1 June 2025.
- ↑Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice, and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy, ed. by Rawdon Brown (Cambridge University Press, 2013) pp.241-242 ISBN 9781108060554
- ↑Philippe de Commynes, The Memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton, Book the Sixth, Volume 2 (1524) ed. by Andrew R. Scoble (George Bell and Sons ,1906) p.261
- ↑Celebrated Crimes, volume 1: The Borgias (1839) (Boston: The Colonial Press, 1917) p.105
- ↑Kainikara, Dr Sanu (2020). From Indus to Independence - A Trek Through Indian History: Vol VII Named for Victory : The Vijayanagar Empire. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. ISBN 978-93-89620-52-8.
- ↑"Cuauhtémoc" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
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