Editing 1496 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[February]] &ndash; [[Pietro Bembo]]'s ''Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chalabrilem liber'', a description of a journey to [[Mount Etna]], is published in [[Venice]] by [[Aldus Manutius]], the first book printed in the [[old-style serif]] or [[Humanist (typography)|humanist]] [[typeface]] cut by [[Francesco Griffo]] (known from the 20th century as [[Bembo]]) and with early adoption of the [[semicolon]] (dated 1495 according to the ''[[more veneto]]'').
* [[February 24]] &ndash; King [[Henry VII of England]] signs the commercial treaty ''[[Intercursus Magnus]]'' with [[Venice]], [[Florence]], and the cities of the [[Hanseatic League]] and the Netherlands.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=135–138|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[March 5]] &ndash; Henry VII of England issues letters patent to Italian-born adventurer [[John Cabot]] and his sons, authorizing them to discover unknown lands.<ref name="CC1496">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/189|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/189 189–192]}}</ref>
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] leaves [[Hispaniola]] for Spain, ending his second visit to the [[Western Hemisphere]]. During his time here he has forcibly subjugated the island, enslaved the [[Taíno]], and laid the basis for a system of land grants tied to the Taíno's enslavement.
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Jesus College, Cambridge]], is founded.<ref name=CBH/>
* [[July]] &ndash; Spanish forces under [[Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba]] capture [[Atella, Basilicata|Atella]] after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French [[viceroy of Naples]], the Comte de Montpensier. [[Ferdinand II of Naples]] is restored to his throne.
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[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 21]]&ndash;[[September 25|25]] &ndash; [[James IV of Scotland]] invades [[Northumberland]], in support of the pretender to the [[English throne]], [[Perkin Warbeck]].<ref name="CC1496"/>
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Joanna of Castile]], second daughter of [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] and [[Isabella I of Castile]], heiress to [[Crown of Castile|Castile]], marries the [[archduke]] [[Philip I of Castile|Philip]], heir through his mother to the [[Burgundian Netherlands]], and through his father to the [[Holy Roman Empire]].
* [[December 5]] &ndash; King [[Manuel I of Portugal]] issues a decree ordering the expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
* Date unknown &ndash; Jan de Groote, a Dutchman, obtains a grant for the north ferry from the mainland of Scotland to [[Orkney]], from King [[James IV of Scotland]].</onlyinclude>