Editing 1504 (section)

== Events ==
[[File:'David' by Michelangelo Fir JBU005 denoised.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[September 8]]: [[Michelangelo]]'s [[Michelangelo's David|''David'']] is completed.]]
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=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of France|French]] troops of King [[Louis XII of France|Louis XII]] surrender [[Gaeta]] to the Spanish, under [[Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aguado Bleye |first1=Pedro |title=Manual de historia de España |date=1963 |volume=2|publisher=Edpasa-Calpe, S.A. |location=Madrid |page=90 |url=https://archive.org/details/manualdehistoria0002agua/page/90/mode/2up?q=%221+de+enero%22 |access-date=22 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] &ndash; After the death of [[Sten Sture the Elder]] on [[December 14]] the year before, [[Svante Nilsson (regent of Sweden)|Svante Nilsson]] is elected the new Regent of [[Sweden]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hildebrand |first1=Hans |title=Sveriges medeltid, senare skedet, från år 1350 till år 1521 |date=1877 |publisher=Linnström |page=431 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLYFAAAAQAAJ&dq=Svante+Nilsson+%2221+januari+1504%22&pg=PA431 |access-date=22 June 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Lyon (1504)|Treaty of Lyon]]: [[Kingdom of France|France]] cedes [[Naples]] to [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]], who becomes [[King of Naples]] as Ferdinand III.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/treaty-lyons|title=The Treaty of Lyons|date=1 January 2004|journal=History Today|volume=54|author=Richard Cavendish|access-date=2 May 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|King Ferdinand V]] of [[Crown of Castile|Castile]] contracts with [[Juan de la Cosa]] to finance an independent expedition to the [[Pearl Islands]] and the [[Gulf of Urabá]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rubio |first1=Juan Ortega |title=Historia de América desde sus tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días |date=1917 |publisher=Sucesores de Hernando |page=398 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UcLAAAAYAAJ&dq=Golfo+de+Urab%C3%A1+Juan+de+la+Cosa+%2214+de+febrero+de+1504%22&pg=PA398 |access-date=22 June 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] &ndash; The investiture of [[Henry VIII|Prince Henry of England]] as [[Prince of Wales]] and [[Earl of Chester]] takes place.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Francis |title=The Princes and Principality of Wales |date=1969 |publisher=University of Wales |isbn=978-0-900768-20-0 |page=140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7SWTAAAAIAAJ&q=%2218%20february%201504%22 |access-date=23 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] uses his knowledge of a [[March 1504 lunar eclipse|lunar eclipse]] this night, to convince the indigenous [[Jamaica]]n people to provide him with supplies (in Europe, the eclipse is in the early morning of [[March 1]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=David Arthur |title=Christopher Columbus, master of the Atlantic |date=1991 |publisher=Andre Deutsch |location=London |isbn=978-0-233-98724-8 |page=193 |url=https://archive.org/details/christophercolum00davi/page/192/mode/2up?q=%2229+february%22 |access-date=23 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] &ndash; King [[James IV of Scotland]] opens the [[Parliament of Scotland|Scottish Parliament]] for the first time since 1496.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Macdougall |first1=Norman |title=James IV : the Stewart dynasty in Scotland |date=2006 |publisher=John Donald |location=Edinburgh |isbn=978-0-85976-663-0 |pages=175, 182 |url=https://archive.org/details/jamesivstewartdy0000macd/page/174/mode/2up?q=%2211+march%22 |access-date=23 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] &ndash; In what is now India's Kerala state, a second invasion of the Portuguese-supported Kingdom of Cochin by the Zamorin of Calicut takes place, beginning a war that lasts until July 3.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Menon |first1=T. Madhava |title=A Handbook of Kerala |date=2000 |publisher=International School of Dravidian Linguistics |isbn=978-81-85692-27-2 |page=151 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FltwAAAAMAAJ&q=%2216%20march%201504%22 |access-date=23 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] &ndash; The [[Eishō (Muromachi period)|Eisho era]] begins in Japan during the reign of [[Emperor Go-Kashiwabara]] as the [[Bunki]] era ends.

=== April–June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; English [[guild]]s become subject to state control.
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] grants the Landshut inheritance to [[Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria|Albert IV]] during the [[War of the Succession of Landshut]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Freudensprung |first1=Sebastian |title=Geschichte des königreiches Bayern |date=1856 |publisher=J. Lindauer |page=176 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6q00woORPFsC&dq=%2223+april+1504%22Landshut+Maximilian&pg=PA176 |access-date=23 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref> Maximilian would pronounce an [[imperial ban]] on [[Ruprecht of the Palatinate (Bishop of Freising)|Ruprecht]] on May 4, who Albert contested for the territory.
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Lê Hiến Tông|Le Hien Tong]], Emperor of Vietnam, dies after a reign of six years and is succeeded by his 15-year-old son [[Le Tuc Tong]].<ref name="EOV">{{cite book |title=Đại Việt Sử Ký Toàn Thư |date=1697 |publisher=Cabinet of Quan Ban |chapter=Bản Kỷ Thực Lục 14: Nhà Hậu Lê (1497 - 1509)|url=https://www.diensu.com/2020/09/DVSKTTB14.html |access-date=23 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Rao Bika|Rao Bika Rathore]], ruler of the Kingdom of [[Bikaner]] in India, dies after a reign of 32 years. For a brief time Bika is succeeded by his elder son Nara, but Nara quickly dies and Nara is succeeded by his brother [[Lunkaran]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bhargava |first1=Visheshwar Sarup |title=History of mediaeval Rajasthan from 8th to 18th century |date=1966 |publisher=Kāleja Buka Ḍipo |pages=132–133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xc9lnRs3-QUC&q=%20%2217%20%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A8%201504%22 |access-date=23 June 2023 |language=hi}}</ref> 
* [[June 28]] &ndash; After being marooned in Jamaica for six months, [[Christopher Columbus]] and his men are rescued by a Spanish ship.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vigneras |first1=Louis André |title=Diego Méndez, Secretary of Christopher Columbus and Alguacil Mayor of Santo Domingo: A Biographical Sketch |journal=Hispanic American Historical Review |date=1978 |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=676–696 |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/58/4/676/152812/ |access-date=23 June 2023}}</ref>

=== July–September ===
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Bogdan III the One-Eyed]] becomes the new [[List of rulers of Moldavia|Prince of Moldavia]] upon the death of his father [[Stephen the Great]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Istoria administrației publice din Moldova |date=1999 |publisher=Academia de Administrare Publică pe lîngă Guvernul Republicii Moldova |page=94 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zyIIAQAAMAAJ&q=%222%20iulie%201504%22 |access-date=23 June 2023 |language=ro}}</ref>
* [[July 3]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Cochin (1504)|siege of Cochin]] in [[India]] by the invading forces of Calicut ends as the Portuguese and Cochin defenders defeat the invaders. Calicut loses 5,000 dead in battle and another 13,000 to disease, while Cochin and Portugal sustain minimal losses. 
* [[July 7]] &ndash; At the age of 16, [[Lê Túc Tông]] becomes the new Emperor of Vietnam (Dai Viet) after the death of his father, [[Lê Hiến Tông]], but serves for only six months before dying.<ref name="EOV" />
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Pope Julius II]] issues an order reforming the official coinage of the Papal States, raising the silver content of the [[gigliato|carlino]] coin to four grams.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Martinori |first1=Edoardo |title=La moneta: vocabolario generale |date=1915 |publisher=Instituto italiano di numismatica |pages=183–184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1RdBAQAAMAAJ |access-date=23 June 2023 |language=it}}</ref> In that the Pope was formerly Giuliano della Rovere, the new coin is called the [[Giulio (coin)|giulio]] in his honor and features the coat of arms of the della Rovere family.
* [[August 19]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Knockdoe]] is fought in Ireland's [[County Galway]]<ref>"The Battle of Knockdoe, 19 August 1504", by Donal O'Carroll, ''Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'' (2004) p.46</ref> as 6,000 troops led by the English [[Lord Deputy of Ireland]], [[Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare]] assist [[Maelsechlainn mac Tadhg Ó Cellaigh]], King of [[Uí Mháine]], against 4,000 troops of Irish chieftain [[Ulick Fionn Burke]], Lord of the [[Clanricarde]] lands. Burke had previously attacked and destroyed Ó Cellaigh's castles at [[Monivea]], [[Castleblakeney]] and Garbally and sought Kildare's help. Kildare's forces win the battle.
* [[September 8]] &ndash;  [[Michelangelo]]'s [[David (Michelangelo)|sculpture of ''David'']] is unveiled in [[Florence]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bull |first1=George |title=Michelangelo: A Biography |date=15 July 1998 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-312-18746-0 |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZWfE3YOMkQC&dq=David+%228+september+1504%22&pg=PA51 |access-date=23 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Michelangelo's David |url=https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it/en/artworks/david-michelangelo/ |website=www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it |access-date=23 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Isabella I of Castile|Queen Isabella]] and [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|King Ferdinand]] issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of [[Royal Chapel of Granada|Capilla Real]], a Royal Chapel, to be built in Granada.<ref>{{cite book|author=Javier Gallego|title=Granada in Your Hand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CaEGT1Buyf0C|year=1985|publisher=Editorial En su mano|isbn=978-84-86320-08-9|page=34}}</ref>
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Blois (1504)|Treaty of Blois]]: [[Philip I of Castile]], Maximilian I and Louis XII agree to terms.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Creighton |first1=Mandell |title=A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation: The Italian princes, 1464 - 1518|volume=4 |date=1887 |publisher=Longmans, Green |location=London |page=69 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzEyXbX4fPgC&dq=Treaty+of+Blois+22+september+1504+philip+louis+Maximilian&pg=PA69 |access-date=23 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Isabella I of Castile]] signs her will and testament.<ref>{{cite book|author=Will Durant|title=The Reformation: The Story of Civilization, Volume VI|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWa7JBDirUYC&pg=PT226|date=7 June 2011|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4516-4763-1|pages=226}}</ref>
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] returns to Spain from [[Fourth voyage of Columbus|his fourth voyage]], during which he and his younger son, [[Ferdinand Columbus|Ferdinand]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morison |first1=Samuel Eliot |title=Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus |pages=320–322 |url=https://archive.org/details/journalsdocumentscolumbus/page/319/mode/2up?q=%227+november%22 |access-date=24 June 2023}}</ref> explored the coast of Central America from [[Belize]] to [[Panama]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Navarro |first1=Ignacio Ríos |last2=de la Vega |first2=Martha Patricia Camacho |title=BELICE OTRA CUÑA BRITÁNICA EN LA AMÉRICA IBÉRICA |url=http://diplomaticosescritores.org/revistas/29_4.htm |access-date=24 June 2023 |date=11 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611062649/http://diplomaticosescritores.org/revistas/29_4.htm |archive-date=June 11, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[November 26]] &ndash; On the death of [[Isabella I of Castile]], Catholic Queen of Castile and Aragon, the [[Crown of Castile]] passes to her daughter [[Joanna of Castile|Joanna]].<ref name="TerjanianBayer2019">{{cite book|author1=Pierre Terjanian|author2=Andrea Bayer|author3=Adam B. Brandow|title=The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X-anDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA302|date=2 October 2019|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-674-7|pages=302–}}</ref>
* [[December 8]]
** (approximate date) Islamic scholar [[Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah]] issues the [[Oran fatwa]] for [[Islam in Spain|Muslims in Spain]] (1 Rajab 910 AH in [[Islamic calendar]], Gregorian date is approximate).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stewart |first1=Devin |title=The identity of «the Muftī of Oran», Abū l-'Abbās Aḥmad b. Abī Jum'ah al-Maghrāwī al-Wahrānī (d. 917/1511) |journal=Al-Qanṭara |date=1 December 2006 |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=265–301 |doi=10.3989/alqantara.2006.v27.i2.2 |url=https://al-qantara.revistas.csic.es/index.php/al-qantara/article/view/2/2 |access-date=24 June 2023 |language=es |issn=1988-2955|doi-access=free }}</ref>
** [[Lê Túc Tông]] dies after a reign of only six months as Emperor of Vietnam.<ref name="EOV" />
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Nils Ravaldsson]], the leader of the [[Dano-Swedish War (1501–1512)|rebellion]] after [[Knut Alvsson]]'s death, is attacked and his resistance crushed at [[Olsborg Castle]] in [[Båhuslen]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leche |first1=V. |last2=Nyström |first2=J. F. |last3=Warburg |first3=K. |last4=Westrin |first4=Th. |title=Nordisk familjebok |date=1914 |publisher=Nordisk familjeboks printing house |location=Stockholm |page=641 |url=https://runeberg.org/nfbt/0347.html |access-date=24 June 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>

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* [[October]] &ndash; [[Babur]] besieges and captures [[Kabul]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gates |first1=Scott |last2=Roy |first2=Kaushik |title=War and State-Building in Afghanistan: Historical and Modern Perspectives |date=20 November 2014 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4725-7219-6 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UnkeBQAAQBAJ&dq=Babur+kabul+%221504%22&pg=PA47 |access-date=24 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Islamization of the Sudan region]]: A [[Funj people|Funj]] leader, [[Amara Dunqas]], founds the [[Sultanate of Sennar]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holt |first1=P. M. |last2=Daly |first2=M. W. |title=A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day |date=11 September 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-86366-3 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXB_BAAAQBAJ&q=%221504%22 |access-date=24 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Sheikh Ahmed]], the final leader of the [[Great Horde]], is last heard of as a [[Lithuania]]n prisoner at [[Vilnius]] until 1527 when he was released, after which he came to rule over the [[Astrakhan Khanate]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kolodziejczyk |first1=Dariusz |title=The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania: International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (15th-18th Century), A Study of Peace Treaties Followed by an Annotated Edition of Relevant Documents |date=22 June 2011 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-21571-9 |page=577 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-R5DwAAQBAJ&dq=Sheikh+Ahmed+%221504%22&pg=PA577 |access-date=24 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> 
* 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Masters |first1=Roger D. |title=Fortune is a river : Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli's magnificent dream to change the course of Florentine history |date=1998 |publisher=Free Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-684-84452-7 |pages=2,129 |url=https://archive.org/details/fortuneisriverle0000mast/page/122/mode/2up?q=leonardo |access-date=24 June 2023}}</ref>
* The [[Council of Ten]] discusses the advisability of proposing a scheme of a [[Suez Canal]] to the Sultan of Egypt, at the time [[Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri]], but the discussion is eventually abandoned.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hallberg |first1=Charles W. |title=Suez canal its history and diplomatic importance |date=1931 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |page=33 |url=https://archive.org/details/suezcanalitshist0000char/page/32/mode/2up?q=1504 |access-date=24 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[Aldus Manutius]] publishes his edition of ''[[Demosthenes]]'' in [[Republic of Venice|Venice]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Martin |first1=Gunther |title=The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes |date=15 January 2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-871385-2 |page=455 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zdt1DwAAQBAJ&q=Aldus%20Manutius%201504%20 |access-date=24 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* 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 (Raphael)|The Marriage of the Virgin]]'', which exemplifies some major principles of [[High Renaissance]] art.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hartt |first1=Frederick |title=Art: The Renaissance, the Baroque, the modern world |date=1985 |publisher=Prentice-Hall |isbn=978-0-13-047374-5 |page=619 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDnOygmDZkIC&q=%22marriage+of+the+virgin%22+1504 |access-date=25 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Richetti |first=Arianna  |date=6 April 2023 |title=The Marriage of the Virgin: Comparison Between Raphael and Perugino |url=https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/the-marriage-of-the-virgin/ |magazine=Daily Art Magazine  |access-date=25 June 2023}}</ref>
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