Year 1493 (MCDXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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January–March
- January 15 – Christopher Columbus and his crew begin their voyage back to Europe on their two remaining ships, the caravel La Niña (guided by Columbus) and the Pinta (piloted by MartÃÂn Alonso Pinzón), departing from the island of Hispanola and what becomes known as the Bay of Rincón in the Dominican Republic. The decision to return to Spain comes two days after the crew's battle with the indigenous residents, the Ciguayos.
- January 19 – In the Treaty of Barcelona, King Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to King Ferdinand of Aragon.
- February 14 РA storm east of the Azores threatens to capsize both of the remaining ships, the Ni̱a and the Pinta, on the expedition of Christopher Columbus as the crew are returning to Europe after being the first to reach the "New World". The two ships are separated and neither crew knows the fate of the other. The crew takes a vow for one of them to make a pilgrimage if they survive the storm. Columbus himself later makes a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Moguer in Andalusia in Spain.
- February 15 – Columbus begins writing his first account of his voyage to the New World, titled "Letter of Columbus, on the islands of India beyond the Ganges recently discovered", an account later printed and sold throughout Europe. His reference to the Ganges river in India confirms that he thought he had reached Asia.
- March 1 – MartÃÂn Alonso Pinzón returns in the Pinta to the city of Bayona in Spain from Christopher Columbus's voyage of discovery, sending the first notice about the discovery to the Catholic Monarchs. Columbus himself is delayed by a storm in the Azores.
- March 4 – Christopher Columbus anchors in Lisbon and completes his February 15 letter on the first voyage, conveying the news of his discoveries.
- March 15 – Christopher Columbus and MartÃÂn Alonso Pinzón return to Palos de la Frontera, the original port in Spain from where they started the first voyage of discovery.
- March 30 РIn light of his success, Christopher Columbus is granted the title of "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" ("Almirante del mar Oc̩ano") and "Viceroy and Governor of the islands which he has discovered in the Indies".
April–June
July–September
- July 12 – The Nuremberg Chronicle, written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel as Liber Chronicarum and described as "a history of the world from the Creation to the year 1493", with woodcut illustrations by and , is first printed. The expense is undertaken by two German merchants in Nuremberg, and Sebastian Kammermeister.
- July – In India, at Srinagar, Muhammad Shah Mir resumes his rule as the Sultan of Kashmir, replacing Fateh Shah Miri, who had ruled since 1486.
- August 19 – Maximilian I succeeds his father, Frederick III, as Holy Roman Emperor.
- September 9 – At the Battle of Krbava Field in southern Croatia, forces of the Ottoman Empire defeat those of the Kingdom of Croatia.
- September 24 – Christopher Columbus leaves Cádiz on his second voyage of exploration.
- September 26 – Pope Alexander VI issues the bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of newly discovered lands he made them in Inter caetera.
October–December
Date unknown
Births
- January 2 РLouis de Bourbon de Vend̫me, French cardinal (d. 1557)
- January 6 – Olaus Petri, Swedish clergyman (d. 1552)
- January 9 – Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Viceroy of Valencia, German noble (d. 1525)
- January 25 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1530)
- January 26
- Min Bin, king of Arakan (d. 1554)
- Giovanni Poggio, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1556)
- Ippolita Maria Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1501)
- February 9 – Helen of the Palatinate, Duchess of Pomerania (d. 1524)
- March 15 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
- April 11 – George I, Duke of Pomerania from the House of Griffins (d. 1531)
- April 25 – Giovanni Gaddi, Italian priest (d. 1542)
- May 5 – Alessandro Pasqualini, Italian architect (d. 1559)
- May 6 – Girolamo Seripando, Catholic cardinal (d. 1563)
- June 5 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
- June 10 – Anton Fugger, German merchant (d. 1560)
- September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and litterateur (d. 1543)
- September 29 – Yi Gwang-sik, Korean politician and general (d. 1563)
- October 14 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
- October 17 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Renaissance Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
- November 11 – Bernardo Tasso, Italian courtier and poet (d. 1569)
- November 11 or December 17 – Paracelsus, born Philippus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541)
- November 17 – John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (d. 1543)
- November 25 – Osanna of Cattaro, Dominican visionary and anchoress (d. 1565)
- December 9 – ÃÂñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (d. 1566)
- December 25 – Antoinette de Bourbon, French noblewoman (d. 1583)
- December 27 – Johann Pfeffinger, German theologian (d. 1573)
- December 31 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Italian politically active duchess (d. 1570)
- date unknown
- Jobst II, Count of Hoya (d. 1545)
- Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (d. 1541)
- Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (d. 1580)
- probable
- Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1560)
- Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (d. 1546)
Deaths
- May – Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (b. 1450)
- May 10 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. c. 1433)
- May 14 – Nannina de' Medici, member of de' Medici family (b. 1448)
- June 14 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (b. 1454)
- August 19 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
- September 9 – Mirko DerenÃÂin, Croatian leader
- October 11 – Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1450)
- October 22 – James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
- November 6 – Andrey Bolshoy, Russian prince (b. 1446)
- date unknown
- Ahmad Zarruq, Moroccan scholar and Sufi sheikh (b. 1442)
- James Blount, English soldier
- Isabel Bras Williamson, Scottish merchant (b. 1430)
- Kim Si-sÃ
Âp, Korean scholar and author (b. 1435)
- MartÃÂn Alonso Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. c. 1441)
- Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu
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