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=== January–December ===
* [[January 4]] – The [[Cetinje Octoechos]] (Цетињски октоих, an [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] [[octoechos (liturgy)]], first tone), is the first [[incunabulum]] written in the [[Serb]]ian recension of [[Church Slavonic]], and the first book printed in [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] in [[Southeast Europe]], is completed in [[Cetinje]].
* [[January 25]] – [[Alfonso II of Naples|Alfonso II]] becomes King of [[Naples]].
* [[May]] – [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]], recognises [[Perkin Warbeck]] as rightful [[King of England]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|author2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=135–138|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] – [[Christopher Columbus]] first sights [[Jamaica]].
* [[May 7]] – The infant [[Amda Seyon II]] succeeds his father [[Eskender]], as [[Emperor of Ethiopia]].
* [[May 31]] – [[First Battle of Acentejo]]: Natives of the island of [[Tenerife]], known as [[Guanches]], defeat the invading [[Spain|Spanish]] forces.
* [[1st June]] – [[Friar John Cor of Lindores Abbey]] pays duty on 8 bolls of malt in the [[Scottish Exchequer Rolls]] to make aqua vitae for [[King James IV]]
* [[June 7]] – [[Treaty of Tordesillas]]: [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] divide the [[New World]] between themselves.
* [[June 25]] – The [[Pre-1600 Atlantic hurricane seasons|first hurricane ever observed]] by Europeans strikes the Spanish settlement of [[La Isabela]], on [[Hispaniola]].
* [[October 22]] – [[Ludovico Sforza]] becomes [[Duke of Milan]], and invites [[Charles VIII of France]] to invade Italy in support of his claim, beginning the [[Italian War of 1494–98]].
* [[October 26]] – [[Amda Seyon II]] is deposed and killed, and his uncle [[Na'od]] succeeds him as [[Emperor of Ethiopia]].
* [[November 9]] – The [[house of Medici|House of Medici]]
* [[November 10]] – Fra [[Luca Pacioli]]'s ''[[Summa de arithmetica|Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalità]]'' is published in [[Venice]], containing the first printed account of [[algebra]] in the vernacular, and the first published description of the [[double-entry accounting system]].
* [[November 17]] – [[Italian War of 1494–98]]:
* [[December 25]] – [[Second Battle of Acentejo]]: The Spanish crush the native forces of the island of [[Tenerife]], leading to the subjugation of this last bastion of resistance in the [[Canary Islands]].
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* [[May 24]] – [[Pontormo]], Italian painter (d. [[1557]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Johannes Scheubel]], German mathematician (d. [[1570]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Sri Chand]], Indian founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (d. [[1629]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders]] (1518–1538) (d. [[1572]])
* [[September 12]] – King [[Francis I of France]] (d. [[1547]])
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* [[November 6]] – [[Suleiman the Magnificent]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1566]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen]], Princess of Anhalt by birth, Duchess consort of Saxony (d. [[1521]])
* [[November]] (''probable'') – [[François Rabelais]], French Renaissance writer (d. [[1553]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Alonso Álvarez de Pineda]], Spanish explorer and cartographer (d. [[1519]])
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* [[January 25]] – King [[Ferdinand I of Naples]] (b. [[1423]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Eskender]], [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] (b. [[1471]])
* [[August 1]] – [[Giovanni Santi]], Italian artist and father of [[Raphael]] (b. c. 1435)
* [[August 11]] – [[Hans Memling]], Flemish painter (b. c. [[1430]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Poliziano]], Italian humanist (b. [[1454]])
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