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=== July–September === * [[July 1]] – A [[Shipwrecks of Puerto Rico#Timeline of historical wrecks|powerful hurricane]] sweeps through the Caribbean Sea near [[Puerto Rico]] and the island of [[Hispaniola]], two days after [[Christopher Columbus]] was denied permission to land at [[Santo Domingo]]. An estimated 500 people are killed when the winds wreck 20 of the 31 ships brought from Spain by the new Viceroy, [[Nicolás de Ovando]], including Ovando's flagship, ''El Dorado''. Former Viceroy [[Francisco de Bobadilla]] and administrator [[Francisco Roldán]] are among the people killed.<ref name=Bergreen/> A ship provided by Bobadilla for Columbus to transport the gold owed to him, the ''Aguja'', is one of the 11 to survive the hurricane and accusations are made that Columbus magically invoked the storm as an act of vengeance.<ref>Samuel Eliot Morison, (1942), Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, Boston: (Little, Brown and Co., 1942) p. 590</ref> * [[July 28]] – At [[Augsburg]], [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian I]], Germany's [[King of the Romans]] signs a treaty with representatives of King Henry VII of England, agreeing not to provide assistance to English rebels. * [[July 30]] – The first encounter between Europeans and the [[Maya people]] of Central America takes place when the Columbus brothers anchor at [[Guanaja]], one of the [[Bay Islands Department|Bay Islands]] off of the coast of what is now the nation of [[Honduras]]. An unfortunate group of [[Trade in Maya civilization|Mayan traders]] happens to arrive at Guanaja at the same time, and its cargo is looted by Bartolomeo Columbus and his crew.<ref>Robert J. Sharer and Loa P. Traxler, ''The Ancient Maya'' (Stanford University Press, 2006) p.758</ref> * [[August 14]] – [[Christopher Columbus]] and his crew land at [[Puerto Castilla, Honduras|Puerto Castilla]] in what is now the mainland of the nation of [[Honduras]], becoming the first Europeans to visit. * [[September 18]] – [[Christopher Columbus]] lands at Central America at what is now [[Costa Rica]]. * [[September 29]] – [[Anne of Foix-Candale]] is proclaimed Queen of Hungary upon her marriage to [[Vladislaus II of Hungary|Vladislaus II]], King of Hungary and Bohemia, at a ceremony in [[Székesfehérvár]].
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