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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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