1504
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th centuryDecades: 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years: 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503 - 1504 - 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509
Events
- January 1 - French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
- January 31 - France cedes Naples to Aragon
- February 29 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowldege of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes his sculpture of David.
- Moldavia, Stephan IIIrd 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 return 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.
- January 17 - Pope Pius V
- Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss reformer.
- Matthew Parker, becomes Archbishop of Canterbury in 1559.
- November 26 - Isabella of Castile, Queen of Castile, the wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the mother of Catherine of Aragon, and the patron of Christopher Columbus.
- Philibert II of Savoy, Duke of Savoy
- Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Astronomer and teacher of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby