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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 23]] &ndash; Prince [[Mihnea cel Rău]], son of [[Vlad the Impaler]], becomes the [[List of princes of Wallachia|Voivode]] of [[Wallachia]], with a palace at [[Târgoviște]] (now in Romania), upon the death of his cousin [[Radu IV the Great]]. 
* [[May 8]] &ndash;  Italian renaissance artist [[Michelangelo|Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni]] of [[Florence]] signs a contract with the Vatican to paint the [[Sistine Chapel ceiling]], in return for a promised fee of 3,000 gold [[ducat]]s (equivalent in 2023 to more than U.S. $600,000).<ref>Yvonne Paris, ''Michelangelo: 1475–1564'' (Parragon, 2009)</ref> 
* [[June 4]] &ndash; The coronation of [[Louis II of Hungary|Prince Lajos]] as the designated successor to his father, [[Vladislaus II of Hungary|King Vladislaus II]] of [[Hungary]], takes place in [[Székesfehérvár]]. 
* [[June 6]] &ndash; Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I signs a humiliating armistice with the Republic of Venice, which for the moment stops any of his further plans for Italy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rubinstein |first1=Nicolai |title=Firenze e il problema della politica imperiale in Italia al tempo di Massimiliano I |journal=Archivio Storico Italiano |date=1958 |volume=116 |issue=1 (417) |pages=5–35 |jstor=26250402 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26250402 |access-date=9 July 2023 |issn=0391-7770}}</ref>