1504

This article is about the year 1504.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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 other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1504 MDIV
Ab urbe condita	2257
Armenian calendar	953 ԹՎ ՋԾԳ
Assyrian calendar	6254
Bengali calendar	911
Berber calendar	2454
English Regnal year	19 Hen. 7 – 20 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2048
Burmese calendar	866
Byzantine calendar	7012–7013
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4200 or 4140     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4201 or 4141
Coptic calendar	1220–1221
Discordian calendar	2670
Ethiopian calendar	1496–1497
Hebrew calendar	5264–5265
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1560–1561
- Shaka Samvat	1426–1427
- Kali Yuga	4605–4606
Holocene calendar	11504
Igbo calendar	504–505
Iranian calendar	882–883
Islamic calendar	909–910
Japanese calendar	Bunki 4 / Eishō 1 (永正元年)
Julian calendar	1504 MDIV
Korean calendar	3837
Minguo calendar	408 before ROC 民前408年
Thai solar calendar	2046–2047

Bay of Naples.

September 8: Michelangelo's David.

Year 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 1 – French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.
• January 21 – After the death of Sten Sture the Elder on December 14 the year before, Svante Nilsson is elected new Regent of Sweden.
• January 31 – Treaty of Lyon: France cedes Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon who becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
• February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse this night to convince Jamaican tribesmen to provide him with supplies.
• April 1 – English guilds subject to state control.
• April 23 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, routes troops to Bavaria.

July–December

• September 8 – Michelangelo's sculpture of David is erected in Florence.
• September 22 – A settled engagement is arranged between Karel of Luxembourg and Claudia the Beaujeu.
• September 22 – Treaty of Blois: Philip I of Castile, Maximilian I and Louis XII agree terms.
• October 12 – Isabella I of Castile signs her testament.
• November 7 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage, during which he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
• November 26 – Isabella I of Castile, Catholic Queen of Castile and Aragon, dies, ending her patronage for Columbus. The Crown of Castile passes to her daughter Joanna.

Date unknown

• Babur besieges and captures Kabul.
• Islamization of the Sudan region: A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Sultanate of Sennar.
• Sheikh Ahmad, final leader of the Great Horde, is last heard of as a Lithuanian prisoner at Vilnius.
• Juan de la Cosa begins his first independent voyage, to the Isthmus of Panama.
• In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò 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.
• Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal.
• Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.
• Matthias Grünewald paints a Crucifixion.
• 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.

Births

• January 1 – Caspar Creuziger, German humanist (d. 1548)
• January 3 – Gian Girolamo Albani, Italian cardinal (d. 1591)
• January 17 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
• January 28 – Anna II, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, German noblewoman, reigning from 1516 until her death (d. 1574)
• February 3 – Scipione Rebiba, Italian cardinal (d. 1577)
• March 31 – Guru Angad, Indian religious leader (d. 1552)
• April 12 – Alessandro Campeggio, Italian cardinal (d. 1554)
• April 30 – Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter (d. 1570)
• May 5 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579)
• May 29 – Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (d. 1573)
• June 24 – Johannes Mathesius, German theologian (d. 1565)
• July 18 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
• August 1 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Danish princess (d. 1547)
• August 6 – Matthew Parker, English Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574)
• September 4 – John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Prince of Anahlt-Dessau (1516–1544) and Anhalt-Zerbst (1544–1551) (d. 1551)
• September 20 – Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1559)
• October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligraphist and noted poet (d. 1551)
• November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573)
• November 13 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1567)
• c. December – Nicholas Udall, English playwright and schoolmaster (d. 1556)
• December 31 – Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1538)
• date unknown
  • Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي), Sunni Islamic scholar, author of Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa
  • John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English Tudor nobleman and politician (executed 1553)
  • Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (burned at the stake 1528)
  • Dirk Philips, early Dutch Anabaptist writer and theologian (d. 1568)

Deaths

• April – Filippino Lippi, Italian painter (b. 1457)
• June 19 – Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
• July 2 – Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
• July 29 – Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435)
• August – Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer (b. 1454)
• September 9 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), astrologer (b. 1467)
• September 10 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
• November 26 – Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
• December 21 – Berthold von Henneberg, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
• date unknown
  • Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Spanish author
  • Choe Bu, Korean official and venturer to China (b. 1454)