Editing 1494 (section)

=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 4]] &ndash; The [[Cetinje Octoechos]] (Цетињски октоих, an [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] [[octoechos (liturgy)]], first tone), the first [[incunabulum]] written in the [[Serb]]ian recension of [[Church Slavonic]], and the first book printed in [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] in [[Southeast Europe]], is completed in [[Cetinje]].
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Alfonso II of Naples|Alfonso II]] becomes King of [[Naples]].
* [[May]] &ndash; [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]], recognises the pretender [[Perkin Warbeck]] as rightful [[King of England]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=135–138|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] first sights [[Jamaica]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Franklin W. Knight|author2=Leonard and Helen R Stulman Professor of History Franklin W Knight|title=The Caribbean, the Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TY-xAAAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-505440-8|page=333}}</ref>
* [[May 7]] &ndash; The infant [[Amda Seyon II]] succeeds his father [[Eskender]] as [[Emperor of Ethiopia]].
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[First Battle of Acentejo]]: Natives of the island of [[Tenerife]], known as [[Guanches]], defeat the invading [[Spain|Spanish]] forces. 
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Tordesillas]]: [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] divide the [[New World]] between themselves. 
* [[June 25]] &ndash; The [[Pre-1600 Atlantic hurricane seasons|first hurricane ever observed]] by Europeans strikes the Spanish settlement of [[La Isabela]], on [[Hispaniola]].
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Ludovico Sforza]] becomes [[Duke of Milan]], and invites [[Charles VIII of France]] to invade Italy in support of his claim, beginning the [[Italian War of 1494–98]].
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Amda Seyon II]] is deposed and killed, and his uncle [[Na'od]] succeeds him as [[Emperor of Ethiopia]].
* [[November 9]] &ndash; The [[Medici Bank]] is insolvent and the [[House of Medici]] is expelled from [[Florence]]. 
* [[November 10]] &ndash; Fra [[Luca Pacioli]]'s ''[[Summa de arithmetica|Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalità]]'' is published in [[Venice]], containing the first printed account of [[algebra]] in the vernacular, and the first published description of the [[double-entry accounting system]].
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Italian War of 1494–98]]: The armies of [[Charles VIII of France]] enter [[Florence]].
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[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]].