Editing 1493

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[[File:Schedel Secunda etas mundi 1493 UTA.jpg|thumb|[[Hartmann Schedel]]'s 1493 map of the world]]
Year '''1493''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDXCIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Barcelona]]: [[Charles VIII of France]] returns [[Cerdagne]] and [[Roussillon]] to [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|Ferdinand of Aragon]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1493 |title=Historical Events for Year 1493 &#124; OnThisDay.com |website=Historyorb.com |date=November 21, 1493 |access-date=2017-04-22}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Martín Alonso Pinzón]] returns to the city of Bayona in Spain from the voyage of discovery, sending the first notice about the discovery to the Catholic Monarchs ([[Christopher Columbus]] is delayed by a storm in the [[Azores]]).
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] anchors in [[Lisbon]] and completes his February 15 [[Columbus's letter on the first voyage|letter on the first voyage]], conveying the news of his discoveries.
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] and [[Martín Alonso Pinzón]] return to [[Palos de la Frontera]], the original port in Spain from where they started the first voyage of discovery. 
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Battle of Anfao]]: [[Askia Mohammad I]] defeats [[Sonni Baru]], and usurps the throne of the [[Songhai Empire]].<ref name="hutchinson">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Williams |first=Neville |title=1493 |encyclopedia=The Hutchinson Chronology of World History: 1492-1775 - The Expanding World |date=1999 |publisher=Helicon Books |location=Abington, UK |isbn=978-1-85-986282-7}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] &ndash; In the [[papal bull]] ''[[Inter caetera]]'', [[Pope Alexander VI]] decrees that all lands discovered 100 leagues (or further west) of the [[Azores]] are Spanish.
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian I]] succeeds his father, [[Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick III]], as [[Holy Roman Emperor]].
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Battle of Krbava Field]] in southern [[Croatia]]: Forces of the [[Ottoman Empire]] defeat those of the [[Croatia in the union with Hungary|Kingdom of Croatia]].
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] leaves [[Cádiz]] on his [[Voyages of Christopher Columbus#Second voyage|second voyage of exploration]].
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Pope Alexander VI]] issues the [[papal bull|bull]] ''[[Dudum siquidem]]'' to the [[Catholic Monarchs]], extending the grant of newly discovered lands he made them in ''[[Inter caetera]]''.
* [[November 19]] &ndash; Christopher Columbus lands on the coast of the island of Borinquen, which he renames [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]] (modern-day [[Puerto Rico]]).

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Kingdom of England|England]] imposes sanctions on [[Burgundy (region)|Burgundy]] for supporting [[Perkin Warbeck]], the pretender to the English throne.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=135–138|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[James IV of Scotland]] seizes lands of [[John MacDonald II]], putting an end to the [[Lord of the Isles]].
* [[Huayna Capac]] becomes emperor of the [[Inca Empire]].
* [[Leonardo da Vinci]] creates the first known design for a [[Leonardo's aerial screw|helicopter]].
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== Births ==
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme]], French cardinal (d. [[1557]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Olaus Petri]], Swedish clergyman (d. [[1552]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Viceroy of Valencia]], German noble (d. [[1525]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Maximilian Sforza]], Duke of Milan (d. [[1530]])
* [[January 26]]
** [[Min Bin]], king of Arakan (d. [[1554]])
** [[Giovanni Poggio]], Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. [[1556]])
** [[Ippolita Maria Sforza (1493–1501)|Ippolita Maria Sforza]], Italian noble (d. [[1501]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Helen of the Palatinate]], Duchess of Pomerania (d. [[1524]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Anne de Montmorency]], [[Constable of France]] (d. [[1567]])
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[George I, Duke of Pomerania]] from the House of Griffins (d. [[1531]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Gaddi (priest)|Giovanni Gaddi]], Italian priest (d. [[1542]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Pasqualini]], Italian architect (d. [[1559]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Seripando]], Catholic cardinal (d. [[1563]])
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Justus Jonas]], German Protestant reformer (d. [[1555]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Anton Fugger]], German merchant (d. [[1560]])
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Agnolo Firenzuola]], Italian poet and litterateur (d. [[1543]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Yi Gwang-sik]], Korean politician and general (d. [[1563]])
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Shimazu Tadayoshi]], Japanese warlord (d. [[1568]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Bartolommeo Bandinelli]], Renaissance Italian sculptor (d. [[1560]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Bernardo Tasso]], Italian courtier and poet (d. [[1569]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Williamson|title=Bernardo Tasso|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxPgttoJ2OAC&pg=PA1|year=1951|publisher=Ed. di Storia e Letteratura|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[November 11]] or [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Paracelsus]], born Philippus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician and scientist (d. [[1541]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Spring|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qhcdAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Spring Publications.|isbn=978-1-882670-17-8|page=143}}</ref>
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer]], English politician (d. [[1543]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Osanna of Cattaro]], Dominican visionary and anchoress (d. [[1565]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado]] (d. [[1566]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Antoinette de Bourbon]], French noblewoman (d. [[1583]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Johann Pfeffinger]], German theologian (d. [[1573]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino]], Italian politically active duchess (d. [[1570]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Jobst II, Count of Hoya]] (d. [[1545]])
** [[Simon Grynaeus]], German scholar and theologian (d. [[1541]])
** [[Matsudaira Shigeyoshi]], Japanese general (d. [[1580]])
* ''probable''
** [[Jean du Bellay]], French cardinal and diplomat (d. [[1560]])
** [[Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell]], Scottish statesman (d. [[1546]])

== Deaths ==

* [[May]] &ndash; [[Pietro Antonio Solari]], Italian architect (b. [[1450]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll]], Scottish politician (b. c. [[1433]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Nannina de' Medici]], member of de' Medici family (b. [[1448]])
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Ermolao Barbaro]], Italian scholar (b. [[1454]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1415]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Mirko Derenčin]], Croatian leader
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara]] (b. [[1450]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton]]
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Andrey Bolshoy]], Russian prince (b. [[1446]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Ahmad Zarruq]], Moroccan scholar and Sufi sheikh (b. [[1442]])
** [[James Blount (English soldier)|James Blount]], English soldier
** [[Isabel Bras Williamson]], Scottish merchant (b. [[1430]])
** [[Kim Si-sŭp]], Korean scholar and author (b. [[1435]])
** [[Martín Alonso Pinzón]], Spanish navigator and explorer (b. c. [[1441]])
** [[Tupac Inca Yupanqui]], Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu

== References ==
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