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Birth
1495 Birth, Marriage, Death in the UK 1495- 1495
- 1495
- 1495
1495
| Millennium: |
2nd millennium |
| Centuries: |
14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: |
1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s |
| Years: |
1492 1493 1494 - 1495 - 1496 1497 1498 |
| 1495 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works
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Year 1495 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
Contents
- 1 Events of 1495
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths
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- February 22 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as viceroy.
- May 26 - A Spanish army under Gonzalo de Córdoba lands in Calabria, with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples.
- June 1 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
- June 28 - Battle of Seminara: Cordoba and Ferrante are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny.
- July 6 - Battle of Fornovo: The French army under King Charles secures its retreat from Italy, by defeating a combined Milanese-Venetian force under Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua.
- October 25 - King Manuel I of Portugal begins his reign.
- November 30 - An explosion at Vyborg Castle deters the Russian forces who have invaded Sweden through Karelia.
- 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.
- The Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire is founded.
- Henry VII of England commissions the world's first dry dock at Portsmouth.
- The University of Aberdeen is founded by Bishop William Elphinstone.
1495 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1495
MCDXCV |
| Ab urbe condita |
2248 |
| Armenian calendar |
944
ԹՎ ՋԽԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar |
-349 – -348 |
| Berber calendar |
2445 |
| Buddhist calendar |
2039 |
| Burmese calendar |
857 |
| Byzantine calendar |
7003 – 7004 |
| Chinese calendar |
甲寅年十二月初五日
(4131/4191-12-5)
— to —
乙卯年十二月十五日
(4132/4192-12-15) |
| Coptic calendar |
1211 – 1212 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1487 – 1488 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5255 – 5256 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1550 – 1551 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1417 – 1418 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4596 – 4597 |
| Holocene calendar |
11495 |
| Iranian calendar |
873 – 874 |
| Islamic calendar |
900 – 901 |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiō 4
(明応4年) |
| Korean calendar |
3828 |
| Thai solar calendar |
2038 |
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- March 6 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)
- March 8 - John of God, Spanish friar and saint (d. 1550)
- April 16 - Petrus Apianus, German humanist (d. 1557)
- November 21 - John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563)
- December 5 - Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
- date unknown
- Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (d. 1540)
- Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (d. 1568)
- probable
- Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)
- Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (d. 1545)
- Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer (d. 1560)
- January 11 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
- February 25 - Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (b. 1459)
- May 31 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1415)
- September - Vlad Călugărul
- September 14 - Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (b. 1492)
- October 25 - King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
- December 18 - King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
- December 21 - Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (b. c. 1431)
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