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1504

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Table of contents
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

\n*January 1 - French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.\n*January 31 - France cedes Naples to Aragon\n*February 29 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowldege of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.\n* Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes his sculpture of David - August 8 it is erected in Florence\n* Moldavia, Stephan IIIrd the great fights against Turkey and Poland.\n* Baber besieges and captures Kabul.\n* Ferdinand II of Aragon becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.\n* 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.\n* Aldo Manuzio publishes Demosthenes. \n

Births

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January 17 - Pope Pius V\n* Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss reformer.\n* Matthew Parker, becomes Archbishop of Canterbury in 1559.

Deaths

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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. \n* Philibert II of Savoy, Duke of Savoy\n* Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Astronomer and teacher of Nicolaus Copernicus\n* Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899