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Everything about 1504 totally explainedYear 1504 ( MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1504
January - June
July - December
September 8 - Michelangelo's sculpture of David is erected in Florence.
September 22 - A settle engagement is arranged between Karel of Luxembourg and Claudia the Beaujeu.
September 22 - Treaty of Blois: Philip van Bourgondie and Maximilian I and Louis XII agree to terms.
October 12 - Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament.
November 26 - Isabella of Castille, Catholic Queen of Castille and Aragon, dies, ending her patronage for Christopher Columbus.
Undated
Moldavia: Stephen III the Great fights against Turkey and Poland.
Baber besieges and captures Kabul.
Ferdinand II of Aragon becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage, where he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
Aldo Manuzio publishes Demosthenes.
Matthias Grünewald paints Crucifixion.
Juan de la Cosa makes a voyage to South America.
A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Sultanate of Sennar (History of Sudan).
In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and 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.
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.
Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.
Births
January 17 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
April 30 - Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (d. 1570)
May 5 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579)
July 18 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
August 6 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574)
November - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573)
November 13 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
date unknown
probable - Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1568)
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Deaths
April - Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (b. 1457)
June 19 - Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
July 2 - Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
July 29 - Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435)
September 9 - Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), astrologer (b. 1467)
September 10 - Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
November 26 - Queen Isabella of Castile (b. 1451)
December 21 - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
date unknown
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