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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1501 1502 1503 - 1504 - 1505 1506 1507 |
| 1504 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events of 1504
January - June
- January 1 - French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
- January 31 - Treaty of Lyon: France cedes Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon.
- February 29 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican tribesmen to provide him with supplies.
- March 31 - France and Spain agree to a ceasefire.
- April 1 - English guilds enter state control.
- April 23 - King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria.
July - December
- September 8 - Michelangelo's sculpture of David is erected in Florence.
- September 22 - A settle engagement is arranged between Karel of Luxembourg and Claudia the Beaujeu.
- September 22 - Treaty of Blois: Philip van Bourgondie and Maximilian I and Louis XII agree to terms.
- October 12 - Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament.
- November 26 - Isabella of Castille, Catholic Queen of Castille and Aragon, dies, ending her patronage for Christopher Columbus.
Undated
- Moldavia: Stephen III the Great fights against Turkey and Poland.
- Baber besieges and captures Kabul.
- Ferdinand II of Aragon becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
- Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage, where he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
- Aldo Manuzio publishes Demosthenes.
- Matthias Grünewald paints Crucifixion.
- Juan de la Cosa makes a voyage to South America.
- A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Sultanate of Sennar (History of Sudan).
- In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and 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.
- 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, which exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art.
- Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1504 MDIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2257 |
| Armenian calendar | 953 ԹՎ ՋԾԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -340 – -339 |
| Berber calendar | 2454 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2048 |
| Burmese calendar | 866 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7012 – 7013 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年十二月十四日 (4140/4200-12-14) — to —
甲子年十一月廿六日(4141/4201-11-26) |
| Coptic calendar | 1220 – 1221 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1496 – 1497 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5264 – 5265 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1559 – 1560 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1426 – 1427 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4605 – 4606 |
| Holocene calendar | 11504 |
| Iranian calendar | 882 – 883 |
| Islamic calendar | 909 – 910 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunki 4Eishō 1 (永正元年) |
| Korean calendar | 3837 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2047 |
- January 17 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
- April 30 - Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (d. 1570)
- May 5 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579)
- July 18 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
- August 6 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574)
- November - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573)
- November 13 - Philipp I of Hesse (d. 1567)
- date unknown
- Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي), author of Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa
- Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (d. 1528)
- Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian (d. 1568)
- Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (d. 1556)
- probable - Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1568)
- See also Category: 1504 births.
Deaths
- April - Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (b. 1457)
- June 19 - Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
- July 2 - Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
- July 29 - Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435)
- September 9 - Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), astrologer (b. 1467)
- September 10 - Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
- November 26 - Queen Isabella of Castile (b. 1451)
- December 21 - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
- date unknown
- Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Spanish author
- Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (b. 1454)
- Ch'oe Pu, Korean official and venturer to China (b. 1454)
- See also Category: 1504 deaths.
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