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* [[June 25]] – The [[Pre-1600 Atlantic hurricane seasons|first hurricane ever observed]] by Europeans strikes the Spanish settlement of [[La Isabela]] on [[Hispaniola]]. |
* [[June 25]] – The [[Pre-1600 Atlantic hurricane seasons|first hurricane ever observed]] by Europeans strikes the Spanish settlement of [[La Isabela]] on [[Hispaniola]]. |
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* [[October 22]] – [[Ludovico Sforza]] becomes [[Duke]] of [[Milan]], and starts a chain of events that leads to the First Italian War. |
* [[October 22]] – [[Ludovico Sforza]] becomes [[Duke]] of [[Milan]], and starts a chain of events that leads to the First Italian War. |
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* [[November 10]] – Fra [[Luca Pacioli]]'s ''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 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]]. |
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* [[November 17]] – Armies of [[Charles VIII of France]] enter [[Florence]]. |
* [[November 17]] – Armies of [[Charles VIII of France]] enter [[Florence]]. |
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* [[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]]. |
* [[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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| Gregorian calendar | 1494 MCDXCIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2247 |
| Armenian calendar | 943 ԹՎ ՋԽԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6244 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1415–1416 |
| Bengali calendar | 901 |
| Berber calendar | 2444 |
| English Regnal year | 9 Hen. 7 – 10 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2038 |
| Burmese calendar | 856 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7002–7003 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4191 or 3984 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4192 or 3985 |
| Coptic calendar | 1210–1211 |
| Discordian calendar | 2660 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1486–1487 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5254–5255 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1550–1551 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1415–1416 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4594–4595 |
| Holocene calendar | 11494 |
| Igbo calendar | 494–495 |
| Iranian calendar | 872–873 |
| Islamic calendar | 899–900 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiō 3 (明応３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1411–1412 |
| Julian calendar | 1494 MCDXCIV |
| Korean calendar | 3827 |
| Minguo calendar | 418 before ROC 民前418年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 26 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2036–2037 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1620 or 1239 or 467 — to — 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1621 or 1240 or 468 |
Year 1494 (MCDXCIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
Events
January–December
- January 4 – The Cetinje Octoechos (Цетињски октоих, an Eastern Orthodox octoechos (liturgy), first tone), the first incunabulum written in the Serbian recension of Church Slavonic and the first book printed in Cyrillic in Southeast Europe, is completed in Cetinje.
- January 25 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
- May – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, recognises Perkin Warbeck as rightful King of England.[1]
- May 5 – Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica.
- May 31 – First Battle of Acentejo: Natives of the island of Tenerife, known as Guanches, defeat the invading Spanish forces.
- June 7 – Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the New World between themselves.
- June 25 – The first hurricane ever observed by Europeans strikes the Spanish settlement of La Isabela on Hispaniola.
- October 22 – Ludovico Sforza becomes Duke of Milan, and starts a chain of events that leads to the First Italian War.
- November 10 – Fra Luca Pacioli's 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 – Armies of Charles VIII of France enter Florence.
- 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.
Date unknown
- Amda Seyon II succeeds his father Eskender as Emperor of Ethiopia.
- Na'od succeeds his nephew Amda Seyon II as Emperor of Ethiopia.
- Aztec forces conquer and sack Mitla.
- Italy is invaded by Charles VIII of France.
- Syphilis reported among French Invaders of the Italian War of 1494–98 (who may have contacted Croats fleeing an Ottoman army in the east).
- Aldus Manutius prints Pietro Bembo's De Aetna in Venice, considered to be the first book to include the semicolon.
- Johann Reuchlin publishes De verbo mirifico.
Births
- February 2 – Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557)
- April 20 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
- May 24 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
- September 12 – King Francis I of France (d. 1547)
- November 5 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (d. 1576)
- November 6 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
- date unknown
- Saitō Dōsan, Japanese warlord (d. 1556)
- John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley (d. 1554)
- Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (d. 1519)
- Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (d. 1519)
- Hans Tausen, Danish religious reformer (d. 1561)
- Qiu Ying, Chinese painter (d. 1552)
- Christina Gyllenstierna, Swedish national heroine (d.1559)
- probable – François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer (d. 1553)
Deaths
- January 11 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
- January 25 – King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
- August 1 – Giovanni Santi, artist and father of Raphael (b. c. 1435)
- August 11 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. c. 1430)
- September 24 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
- October 26 – Amda Seyon II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. c. 1487)
- November 8 – Melozzo da Forlì, painter (b. c. 1438)
- November 17 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (b. 1463)
- December 19/20 – Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (b. c. 1434-1441)
- date unknown - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1472)
References
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.