Editing 1504 (section)

=== 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.