1495

Year 1495 (MCDXCV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1495 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1495
MCDXCV
Ab urbe condita2248
Armenian calendar944
ԹՎ ՋԽԴ
Assyrian calendar6245
Balinese saka calendar1416–1417
Bengali calendar902
Berber calendar2445
English Regnal year10 Hen. 7  11 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar2039
Burmese calendar857
Byzantine calendar7003–7004
Chinese calendar甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
4191 or 4131
     to 
乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4192 or 4132
Coptic calendar1211–1212
Discordian calendar2661
Ethiopian calendar1487–1488
Hebrew calendar5255–5256
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1551–1552
 - Shaka Samvat1416–1417
 - Kali Yuga4595–4596
Holocene calendar11495
Igbo calendar495–496
Iranian calendar873–874
Islamic calendar900–901
Japanese calendarMeiō 4
(明応4年)
Javanese calendar1412–1413
Julian calendar1495
MCDXCV
Korean calendar3828
Minguo calendar417 before ROC
民前417年
Nanakshahi calendar27
Thai solar calendar2037–2038
Tibetan calendar阳木虎年
(male Wood-Tiger)
1621 or 1240 or 468
     to 
阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
1622 or 1241 or 469

Events

JanuaryDecember

  • February King's College, Aberdeen, predecessor of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, is founded on the petition of William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen. It is the first English-speaking university to teach medicine.
  • February 22 Italian War of 1494–98: King Charles VIII of France enters Naples, to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as viceroy. Syphilis is first definitely recorded in Europe during this invasion.[1] (perhaps from French forces who may have contacted Croats fleeing an Ottoman army in the east).
  • May 26 A Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba lands in Calabria, with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferdinand II of Naples to the throne.
  • June 1 Brother John Cor of Lindores Abbey pays duty on 8 bolls of malt to the Exchequer in Scotland to make aqua vitae for King James IV; the record in the Exchequer Rolls is the first written reference to Scotch whisky.
  • June 28 Battle of Seminara: Córdoba and Ferdinand are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny.
  • July 3 Battle of Deal: Perkin Warbeck's troops land in Kent, in support of his claim to the English crown, backed by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. They are routed before Warbeck himself can disembark, and he retreats to Ireland and then to Scotland.
  • July 6 Battle of Fornovo: The French army under King Charles secures its retreat from Italy, by defeating a combined Milanese-Venetian force under Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua.
  • Summer John, King of Denmark, sets sail for Kalmar, Sweden, to negotiate with Sten Sture the Elder to restore the power of the Kalmar Union. However, his flagship, Gribshunden, catches fire and sinks off the coast of Ronneby with loss of life, and he is forced to abandon the mission.
  • October 25 King Manuel I of Portugal begins his reign.
  • November 30 An explosion at Vyborg Castle deters the Russian forces, who have invaded Sweden through Karelia.

Date unknown

Reisszug, as it appeared in 2011
  • The oldest extant cable railway is probably the Reisszug, a private line providing goods access to Hohensalzburg Fortress at Salzburg in Austria. This line is generally described as the oldest funicular.[2][3]
  • Poynings' Law comes into effect, placing the Parliament of Ireland under the authority of the Parliament of England.[4]
  • The Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire is founded in Frankfurt.
  • Henry VII of England commissions the world's first dry dock, at Portsmouth.
  • Piero Pacini da Pescia publishes Epistles, Gospels, and Popular Readings in the Tuscan Language[5]

Births

  • January 26 Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
  • February 4
    • Francesco II Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1535)
    • Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1568)
  • February 13 Giacomo Puteo, Spanish cardinal (d. 1563)
  • March 6 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)
  • March 8 John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (d. 1550)
  • March 26 Michele Antonio, Marquess of Saluzzo (d. 1528)
  • March 29 Leonhard Päminger, Austrian composer (d. 1567)
  • April 16 Petrus Apianus, German humanist (d. 1552)
  • August 1 Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter (d. 1562)
  • August 24 Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, Prince of Lüneburg and Baron of Harburg (d. 1549)
  • September 18 Louis X, Duke of Bavaria, German noble (d. 1545)
  • September 20 Gian Matteo Giberti, Catholic bishop (d. 1543)
  • September 23 Bagrat III of Imereti, King of Imereti (d. 1565)
  • September 24 Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, Landgravine of Leuchtenberg (d. 1552)
  • November 1 Erhard Schnepf, German theologian (d. 1558)
  • November 21 John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563)[6]
  • December 5 Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
  • date unknown
    • Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (d. 1540)
    • Cuauhtémoc, 11th Tlatoani (emperor) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1520-1521 (d. 1525)[7]
    • Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (d. 1568)
  • probable
    • Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)
    • Marie Dentière, Genevan Protestant reformer and theologian (d. 1561)
    • Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (d. 1545)
    • Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer (d. 1560)

Deaths

References

  1. Farhi, David; Dupin, Nicolas (September–October 2010). "Origins of syphilis and management in the immunocompetent patient: facts and controversies". Clinics in Dermatology. 28 (5): 533–538. doi:10.1016/j.clindermatol.2010.03.011. PMID 20797514.
  2. "Der Reiszug – Part 1 – Presentation". Funimag. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
  3. Kriechbaum, Reinhard (15 May 2004). "Die große Reise auf den Berg". der Tagespost (in German). Archived from the original on 28 June 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  4. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
  5. "Epistles, Gospels, and Popular Readings in the Tuscan Language". World Digital Library. June 27, 1495. Retrieved September 4, 2013.
  6. "John Bale | English bishop and author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  7. "Cuauhtémoc" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  8. Hourihane, Colum (2012). The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. OUP USA. p. 217. ISBN 9780195395365.
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