1494

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s
Years:	1491 1492 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497

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1494 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1494 MCDXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2247
Armenian calendar	943 ԹՎ ՋԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	6244
Balinese saka calendar	1415–1416
Bengali calendar	901
Berber calendar	2444
English Regnal year	9 Hen. 7 – 10 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2038
Burmese calendar	856
Byzantine calendar	7002–7003
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4191 or 3984 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4192 or 3985
Coptic calendar	1210–1211
Discordian calendar	2660
Ethiopian calendar	1486–1487
Hebrew calendar	5254–5255
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1550–1551
- Shaka Samvat	1415–1416
- Kali Yuga	4594–4595
Holocene calendar	11494
Igbo calendar	494–495
Iranian calendar	872–873
Islamic calendar	899–900
Japanese calendar	Meiō 3 (明応３年)
Javanese calendar	1411–1412
Julian calendar	1494 MCDXCIV
Korean calendar	3827
Minguo calendar	418 before ROC 民前418年
Nanakshahi calendar	26
Thai solar calendar	2036–2037
Tibetan calendar	阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1620 or 1239 or 467 — to — 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1621 or 1240 or 468

Year 1494 (MCDXCIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

January 4 – The Cetinje Octoechos (Цетињски октоих, an Eastern Orthodox octoechos (liturgy), first tone), the first incunabulum written in the Serbian recension of Church Slavonic, and the first book printed in Cyrillic in Southeast Europe, is completed in Cetinje.
January 25 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
May – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, recognises the pretender Perkin Warbeck as rightful King of England.^[1]
May 5 – Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica.^[2]
May 7 – The infant Amda Seyon II succeeds his father Eskender as Emperor of Ethiopia.
May 31 – First Battle of Acentejo: Natives of the island of Tenerife, known as Guanches, defeat the invading Spanish forces.
June 7 – Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the New World between themselves.
June 25 – The first hurricane ever observed by Europeans strikes the Spanish settlement of La Isabela, on Hispaniola.
October 22 – Ludovico Sforza becomes Duke of Milan, and invites Charles VIII of France to invade Italy in support of his claim, beginning the Italian War of 1494–98.
October 26 – Amda Seyon II is deposed and killed, and his uncle Na'od succeeds him as Emperor of Ethiopia.
November 9 – The Medici Bank is insolvent and the House of Medici is expelled from Florence.
November 10 – Fra Luca Pacioli's Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalità is published in Venice, containing the first printed account of algebra in the vernacular, and the first published description of the double-entry accounting system.
November 17 – Italian War of 1494–98: The armies of Charles VIII of France enter Florence.
December 25 – Second Battle of Acentejo: The Spanish crush the native forces of the island of Tenerife, leading to the subjugation of this last bastion of resistance in the Canary Islands.

Date unknown

Aztec forces conquer and sack Mitla.
Johann Reuchlin publishes De verbo mirifico.
Charles VIII of France purchases the right to the Byzantine Empire from exiled pretender, Andreas Palaiologos.

Births

Suleiman the Magnificent

Francis I of France

February 2 – Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557)
February 11 – Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (d. 1574)
February 20 – Johan Friis, Danish statesman (d. 1570)
March 24 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555)
March 25 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, Margravine (d. 1518)
April 4 – Ambrosius Moibanus, German theologian (d. 1554)
April 20 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
April 25 – Juan Téllez-Girón, 4th Count of Ureña, Spanish count (d. 1558)
May 24 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
August 18 – Johannes Scheubel, German mathematician (d. 1570)
September 8 – Sri Chand, Indian founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (d. 1629)
September 11 – Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders (1518–1538) (d. 1572)
September 12 – King Francis I of France (d. 1547)^[3]
October 31 – Wolfgang of the Palatinate, Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1524–1558), governor of the Upper Palatinate (d. 1558)
November 5 – Hans Sachs, German meistersinger ("mastersinger") (d. 1576)
November 6 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
November 12 – Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen, Princess of Anhalt by birth, Duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1521)
November (probable) – François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer (d. 1553)
date unknown
- Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (d. 1519)
- Christina Gyllenstierna, Swedish national heroine (d. 1559)
- Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (d. 1519)
- Qiu Ying, Chinese painter (d. 1552)
- Saitō Dōsan, Japanese warlord (d. 1556)
- John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (d. 1554)
- Hans Tausen, Danish religious reformer (d. 1561)

Deaths

January 11 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)^[4]
January 20 – Seongjong of Joseon, King of Joseon (b. 1457)
January 25 – King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
May 7 – Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1471)
August 1 – Giovanni Santi, Italian artist and father of Raphael (b. c. 1435)
August 11 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. c. 1430)
September 24 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
October 21 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1469)
October 26 – Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. c. 1487)
November 8 – Melozzo da Forlì, Italian painter (b. c. 1438)
November 15 – William Calthorpe, English knight (b. 1410)
November 16 – Theda Ukena, countess regent of East Frisia (b. 1432)
November 17 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (b. 1463)^[5]
December 19 or December 20 – Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (b. c. 1434-1441)

References

^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Franklin W. Knight; Leonard and Helen R Stulman Professor of History Franklin W Knight (1990). The Caribbean, the Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism. Oxford University Press. p. 333. ISBN 978-0-19-505440-8.
^ "Francis I | king of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
^ Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany); Arts Council of Great Britain (1949). Masterpieces from the Alte Pinakothek at Munich: An Exhibition Held at the National Gallery, London. Arts Council. p. 29.
^ Steven Vanden Broecke (January 1, 2003). The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology. BRILL. p. 55. ISBN 90-04-13169-8.

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