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Year 1496 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1496

January 3 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
March 5 - England King Henry VII issues letters patern to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover unknown lands.
March - Santo Domingo is discovered.
March 10 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
July - Spanish forces under Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordoba capture Atella after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier. Ferrante II is restored to the throne of Naples.

Undated

Jesus College (University of Cambridge) is founded.

Henry VII of England signs the commercial treaty Magnus Intercursus with Venice, Florence, and the villes of the Hanse and Pays-Bas.

Joanna, second daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, heiress to Castile, marries the archduke Philip, heir through his mother to the Burgundian Netherlands, and through his father to the Holy Roman Empire.

Christopher Columbus forcibly subjugates the island Hispaniola, enslaves the Amerindians and lays the basis for a system of land grants tied to the Amerindians' labor service.

Births

March 28 - Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)

May 12 - King Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)

August 28 - Konrad Heresbach, German Calvinist (d. 1576)

October 20 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)

December 20 - Joseph ha-Kohen, historian and physician (d. 1575)

date unknown

Lazare de Baïf, French diplomat and author (d. 1547)
João de Barros, Portuguese historian (d. 1570)
François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (d. 1570)
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish conquistador (d. 1584)
Dirck Jacobsz, Dutch painter (d. 1567)
Gregorio López de Tovar, Spanish humanist and lawyer (d. 1560)
Richard Maitland, Scottish poet (d. 1586)
Clément Marot, French poet (d. 1544)
Louise de Montmorency, French noblewoman (d. 1547)
Martin Ocelotl, Mexican priest (d. c. 1537)
William Roper, son-in-law and biographer of Thomas More (d. 1578)
Giovanni Battista da Sangallo, Italian architect (d. 1548)
Shōkei, Japanese temple administrator (d. 1574)
Menno Simons, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1561)
Agostino Steuco, Italian humanist scholar (d. 1548)
Johann Walter, Lutheran composer and poet (d. 1570)

probable - Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester (d. 1549)

Deaths

January 1 - Charles, Count of Angoulême (b. 1459)

February 24 - Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1445)

March 4 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)

March 12 - Johann Heynlin, German humanist scholar (b. c. 1425)

April 16 - Charles II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1489)

April 29 - Dom Fernando de Almada, Count of Avranches (b. c. 1430)

September 7 - King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)

September 15 - Hugh Clopton, Lord Mayor of London (b. c. 1440)

September 25 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)

October 15 - Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443)

November 1 - Filip Callimachus, Italian humanist writer (b. 1437)

date unknown

Richard Bell, Bishop of Carlisle
Alexander Inglis, Scottish clergyman
Infanta Isabel of Portugal, queen of Castile and Leon (b. 1428)
Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1458)
Piero Pollaiuolo, Italian painter (b. 1443)
Qaitbay, sultan of Egypt
Ercole de' Roberti, Italian artist (b. c. 1451)

probable - Jan IV Oświęcimski, duke of Oświęcim

Ongoing Events

Charles VIII's Italian War (1494-98)

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