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=== April&ndash;June ===
[[File:LocationCaymanIslands.png|thumb|[[May 10]]: [[Christopher Columbus|Columbus]] at [[Cayman Islands]]]]
[[File:Coronación de Moctezuma II, en el folio 152.png|250px|thumb|May 24: Coronation of Moctezuma II as Aztec Emperor takes place in Tenochtitlan]]
* [[April 2]] &ndash; The [[Kingdom of Cochin]] (ruled by a Portuguese-installed raja, [[History of Kochi#Rulers of Kochi|Unni Ramman Koyil II]] in modern-day India's [[Kerala]] state) is invaded by 50,000 [[Nair]] troops of the [[Zamorin of Calicut]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Menon |first1=T. Madhava |title=A Handbook of Kerala |date=2000 |publisher=International School of Dravidian Linguistics |isbn=978-81-85692-27-2 |page=151 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FltwAAAAMAAJ&q=%22april%201503%22 |access-date=19 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Italian Wars of 1499–1504#Third Italian War|Third Italian War]]: [[Battle of Seminara (1503)|Battle of Seminara]] &ndash; Spanish forces under [[Fernando de Andrade de las Mariñas]] defeat the French under [[Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny]], who is captured, in Calabria.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Almirante |first1=José |title=Bosquejo de la historia militar de España: hasta fines del siglo XVIII |date=1923 |volume=1|publisher=Sucesores de Rivadeneyra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qU5YAAAAcAAJ&q=%2221%20de%20abril%20de%201503%22 |access-date=19 June 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Italian Wars of 1499–1504#Third Italian War|Third Italian War]]: [[Battle of Cerignola]] &ndash; Spanish forces under [[Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba]] defeat the French under [[Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours]], who is killed, in Apulia. This is considered to be the first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hans Delbrück|title=History of the art of war within the framework of political history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oEpAQAAIAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-8371-6365-9|page=73|language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] discovers the [[Cayman Islands]], which he names ''Las Tortugas'', after the numerous [[sea turtle]]s there.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our History |url=https://www.gov.ky/history |website=Cayman Islands Government |access-date=19 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Naples]] is captured by the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]].
* [[May 20]] ([[Feast of the Ascension]]) &ndash; [[Ascension Island]] is first definitively sighted, by [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] admiral [[Afonso de Albuquerque]].<ref>{{cite web|work=Mysterra Magazine|title=Ascension History|url=http://www.mysterra.org/webmag/ascension-island/history.html|access-date=2011-12-09|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>
* [[May 24]] &ndash; The coronation of [[Moctezuma II]] as ruler of the Aztec Empire takes place at the Aztec capital of [[Tenochtitlan]], part of modern-day [[Mexico City]].<ref>[http://cdigital.dgb.uanl.mx/la/1080012502_C/1080012503_T2/1080012503_MA.PDF "Account of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl"], in ''Obras históricas'', Volume 2, ed. by Alfredo Chavero (Oficina de la Secretaría de Fomento Mexicano)</ref>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[James IV of Scotland]] and [[Margaret Tudor]] of England are married as per the [[Treaty of Perpetual Peace]] by [[Pope Alexander VI]], according to [[Papal bull]].
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Sultan Murad (Aq Qoyunlu)|Murad]], the last Sultan of [[Aq Qoyunlu]] in modern-day eastern [[Turkey]] fights the Safavid King of Persia, [[Ismail I]] in a battle near the city of [[Hamadan]], and suffers 10,000 casualties, including his commander Güzel Ahmad.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sarwar |first1=Ghulam |title=History of Shah Isma'il Safawi |date=1939 |location=Aligarh |page=45 |url=https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfShahIsmailSafawi-GhulamSarwar/page/n53/mode/2up?q=ahmad |access-date=19 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 23]] &ndash; Representatives of King [[Henry VII of England]] and Queen Isabella of Spain sign a treaty for 12-year-old [[Henry VIII|Henry, Prince of Wales]] to be married to [[Catherine of Aragon]], widow of King Henry's son [[Arthur, Prince of Wales|Arthur]].<ref>J. J. Scarisbrick, ''Henry VIII'' (Yale University Press, 1997) p. 8</ref>
* [[June 25]] &ndash; After his ships are damaged in a storm, [[Christopher Columbus]] and his 230 men are forced to beach at the island of [[Jamaica]] (at modern-day [[Saint Ann Parish]]) and remain stranded there for the next six months.<ref>Lawrence Bergreen, ''Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1493–1504'' (Penguin, 2011) pp.330-332</ref>
* [[June 27]] &ndash; The book ''[[The Imitation of Christ]]'' by [[Thomas à Kempis]] is re-published in an English translation.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Creasy |first1=William C. |title=The Imitation of Christ: A New Reading of the 1441 Latin Autograph Manuscript |date=15 September 2015 |publisher=Mercer University Press |isbn=978-0-88146-097-1 |page=xxii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JI7AA0GAbUgC&dq=The+Imitation+of+Christ+%221503%22&pg=PR22 |access-date=20 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>