1504

Year 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1504 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1504
MDIV
Ab urbe condita2257
Armenian calendar953
ԹՎ ՋԾԳ
Assyrian calendar6254
Balinese saka calendar1425–1426
Bengali calendar911
Berber calendar2454
English Regnal year19 Hen. 7  20 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar2048
Burmese calendar866
Byzantine calendar7012–7013
Chinese calendar癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4200 or 4140
     to 
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4201 or 4141
Coptic calendar1220–1221
Discordian calendar2670
Ethiopian calendar1496–1497
Hebrew calendar5264–5265
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1560–1561
 - Shaka Samvat1425–1426
 - Kali Yuga4604–4605
Holocene calendar11504
Igbo calendar504–505
Iranian calendar882–883
Islamic calendar909–910
Japanese calendarBunki 4 / Eishō 1
(永正元年)
Javanese calendar1421–1422
Julian calendar1504
MDIV
Korean calendar3837
Minguo calendar408 before ROC
民前408年
Nanakshahi calendar36
Thai solar calendar2046–2047
Tibetan calendar阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1630 or 1249 or 477
     to 
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1631 or 1250 or 478
January 31: Treaty of Lyon

Events

September 8: Michelangelo's David is completed.

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

Date unknown

  • Babur besieges and captures Kabul.
  • Islamization of the Sudan region: A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Sultanate of Sennar.
  • Sheikh Ahmad, final leader of the Great Horde, is last heard of as a Lithuanian prisoner at Vilnius.
  • Juan de la Cosa begins his first independent voyage, to the Isthmus of Panama.
  • In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli become involved in a scheme to divert the Arno River, cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, fails to follow da Vinci's design, and the project is a major failure.
  • Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.
  • Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.
  • Matthias Grünewald paints a Crucifixion.
  • The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.
  • Raphael paints The Marriage of the Virgin, which exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art.

Births

Anna II, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia
Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy

Deaths

  • January 9 Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder (b. 1418)
  • January 27 Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo (b. 1438)
  • February 17 Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1447)
  • April 15 Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (b. 1457)[12]
  • May 31 Engelbert II of Nassau (b. 1451)
  • June Lê Hiến Tông, Emperor of the Lê Dynasty
  • June 19 Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
  • July 2 Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
  • July 29 Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435)
  • August Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (b. 1454)
  • August 20 Ruprecht of the Palatinate (Bishop of Freising) (b. 1481)
  • August 22 Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1489–1503) (b. 1462)
  • August 28 – John Paston, English gentleman known from the Paston Letters (b. 1444)[13]
  • September 10 Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
  • September 15 Elisabeth of Bavaria (b. 1478)
  • September 22 Jan II the Mad, Duke of Żagań (1439–1449 and 1461–1468 and again in 1472) (b. 1435)
  • September 24 Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), Italian astrologer (b. 1467)[14]
  • October 12 John Corvinus, Hungarian noble (b. 1473)[15]
  • November 9 King Frederick IV of Naples (b. 1452)
  • November 26 Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)[4]
  • December Lê Túc Tông, Emperor of the Lê Dynasty
  • December 21 Berthold von Henneberg, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
  • date unknown
    • Abdal-Karim Khan Astrakhani, Khan of Astrakhan
    • Abu Abdallah IV, Sultan of Tlemcen
    • Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya, first Wattasid Sultan of Morocco and King of Fez
    • Éamonn Mág Samhradháin, Lord of Tullyhaw
    • Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk, Indian-born founder of the Berar Sultanate
    • Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Spanish author
    • Qasim Barid I, founder of the Bidar Sultanate
    • Vira Ravi Ravi Varma, Raja of Venad
    • Choe Bu, Korean official and venturer to China (b. 1454)

References

  1. Richard Cavendish (January 1, 2004). "The Treaty of Lyons". History Today. 54. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  2. Javier Gallego (1985). Granada in Your Hand. Editorial En su mano. p. 34. ISBN 978-84-86320-08-9.
  3. Will Durant (June 7, 2011). The Reformation: The Story of Civilization, Volume VI. Simon and Schuster. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-4516-4763-1.
  4. Pierre Terjanian; Andrea Bayer; Adam B. Brandow (October 2, 2019). The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 302–. ISBN 978-1-58839-674-7.
  5. Wengert, Timothy J. (Autumn 1989). "Caspar Cruciger (1504-1548): The Case of the Disappearing Reformer". Sixteenth Century Journal. Truman State University Press. 20 (3): 417–441. doi:10.2307/2540788. JSTOR 2540788.
  6. Scholastic Library Publishing (2006). Encyclopedia Americana. Scholastic Library Pub. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-7172-0139-6.
  7. Adriano Prosperi (1974). "Campeggi, Alessandro". Treccani. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  8. Encyclopedia of World Biography: Orozco-Radisson. Gale Research. 1998. p. 453. ISBN 978-0-7876-2552-8.
  9. Parker Society (Great Britain) (1968). The Parker Society for the Publication of the Works of the Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church. [Publications]. Johnson Reprint Corporation. p. vi.
  10. Dennis Poupard; Michael Lablanc; Mark Scott (2003). Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers. Gale. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-7876-6352-0.
  11. Mariusz Misztal (2002). The Elizabethan Courtier: Ideal Versus Reality Embodied in Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester. Wydaw. Naukowe AP. p. 61. ISBN 978-83-7271-096-3.
  12. Rona Goffen (January 1, 2002). Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian. Yale University Press. p. 433. ISBN 978-0-300-10589-6.
  13. Norman Davis (1999). The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling. Oxford University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-19-283640-3.
  14. Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward; William Leist Readwin Cates (1872). Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical. Lee and Shepard. p. 348.
  15. Július Bartl; Dušan Škvarna (2002). Slovak History: Chronology & Lexicon. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-86516-444-4.
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