Event of Interest
Feb 14 Treaty of Dordrecht establishes an anti-French alliance between Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and King Henry VII of England
Gama at Mozambique Island
Mar 2 Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
- Apr 7 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
- May 20 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming the first European to reach India by sea
Columbus' Third Voyage
May 30 Christopher Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
- Jun 21 Jews are expelled from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian
- Jun 26 Toothbrush invented in China using boar bristles
- Jul 7 Founding date of the Vienna Court Music Ensemble when Emperor Maximilian I orders appointment of a conductor, two bass singers and six choir boys. Later includes Vienna Boys Choir.
- Jul 20 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I names Albert III, Duke of Saxony the Governor of Friesland
- Jul 31 Christopher Columbus is the first European to discover the island of Trinidad on his third voyage
- Aug 1 Christopher Columbus lands in South America for the first time, near the mouth of the Orinoco river, in modern-day Venezuela
- Aug 14 Christopher Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in what is now Venezuela
Pietà Commissioned
Aug 26 Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà sculpture by French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères
Gregory I
Gregory XIII
Julius II
Julius III
Leo X
Pius V