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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Cesar Borgia]] returns triumphantly to [[Rome]], from [[Romagna]].
* [[February 1]] &ndash; The Duchy of Bavaria-Dachau, created in Germany in 1467 after [[Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria]] was granted his own state following his resignation from the throne of the Duchy of [[Bavaria-Munich]], reverts to Bavaria-Munich's control upon Sigismund's death.
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Minkhaung II]] becomes the sole [[List of Burmese monarchs|King of Burma]] upon the death of his son [[Thihathura II of Ava|Thihathura II]], with whom he was co-ruler for 15 years. Minkhaung's reign ends five weeks later when he dies on April 7. 
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] navigator [[João da Nova]] discovers [[Ascension Island]].<ref>Albuquerque, Afonso de (2001). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WDAMAAAAIAAJ&q=Conception The commentaries of the great Afonso Dalboquerque, second viceroy of India]'', Adamant Media Corporation, <!-- Originally printed for the [[Hakluyt Society]] with translation by Walter de Gray Birch, --> p.xx. Issue 55. {{ISBN|1-4021-9511-7}}.</ref> It is definitely sighted and named on [[May 20]], [[1503]] ([[Feast of the Ascension]]) by [[Afonso de Albuquerque]].<ref>{{cite web|work=Mysterra Magazine|title=Ascension History|url=http://www.mysterra.org/webmag/ascension-island/history.html|access-date=December 9, 2011|archive-date=June 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613222039/http://www.mysterra.org/webmag/ascension-island/history.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>