Editing 1494

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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1494''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDXCIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== 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]].

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* [[Aztec]] forces conquer and sack [[Mitla]].
* [[Johann Reuchlin]] publishes ''De verbo mirifico''.
* [[Charles VIII of France]] purchases the right to the [[Byzantine Empire]] from [[exile]]d [[pretender]], [[Andreas Palaiologos]].
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== Births ==
[[File:EmperorSuleiman.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Suleiman the Magnificent]]]]
[[File:François Ier Louvre.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Francis I of France]]]]
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Bona Sforza]], queen of [[Sigismund I the Old|Sigismund I of Poland]] (d. [[1557]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Takeda Nobutora]], Japanese warlord (d. [[1574]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Johan Friis]], Danish statesman (d. [[1570]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Georgius Agricola]], German mineralogist and scholar (d. [[1555]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach]], Margravine (d. [[1518]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Ambrosius Moibanus]], German theologian (d. [[1554]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Johannes Agricola]], German Protestant reformer (d. [[1566]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Juan Téllez-Girón, 4th Count of Ureña]], Spanish count (d. [[1558]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Pontormo]], Italian painter (d. [[1557]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Johannes Scheubel]], German mathematician (d. [[1570]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Sri Chand]], Indian founder of the ascetic sect of Udasi (d. [[1629]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders]] (1518–1538) (d. [[1572]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; King [[Francis I of France]] (d. [[1547]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Francis I {{!}} king of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-I-king-of-France |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang of the Palatinate]], Count Palatine of Neumarkt (1524–1558), governor of the Upper Palatinate (d. [[1558]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Hans Sachs]], German meistersinger ("mastersinger") (d. [[1576]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Suleiman the Magnificent]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1566]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen]], Princess of Anhalt by birth, Duchess consort of Saxony (d. [[1521]])
* [[November]] (''probable'') &ndash; [[François Rabelais]], French Renaissance writer (d. [[1553]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Alonso Álvarez de Pineda]], Spanish  explorer and cartographer (d. [[1519]])
** [[Christina Gyllenstierna]], Swedish national heroine (d. [[1559]])
** [[Ambrosius Holbein]], German painter (d. [[1519]])
** [[Qiu Ying]], Chinese painter (d. [[1552]])
** [[Saitō Dōsan]], Japanese warlord (d. [[1556]])
** [[John Sutton, 3rd Baron Dudley]] (d. [[1554]])
** [[Hans Tausen]], Danish religious reformer (d. [[1561]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]], Italian artist (b. [[1449]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany)|author2=Arts Council of Great Britain|title=Masterpieces from the Alte Pinakothek at Munich: An Exhibition Held at the National Gallery, London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P09NAAAAYAAJ|year=1949|publisher=Arts Council|page=29|language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Seongjong of Joseon]], King of Joseon (b. [[1457]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; King [[Ferdinand I of Naples]] (b. [[1423]])
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Eskender]], [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] (b. [[1471]])
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Santi]], Italian artist and father of [[Raphael]] (b. c. 1435)
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Hans Memling]], Flemish painter (b. c. [[1430]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Poliziano]], Italian humanist (b. [[1454]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Gian Galeazzo Sforza]], [[Duke of Milan]] (b. [[1469]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Amda Seyon II]], [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] (b. c. [[1487]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Melozzo da Forlì]], Italian painter (b. c. 1438)
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[William Calthorpe]], English knight (b. [[1410]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Theda Ukena]], countess regent of East Frisia  (b. [[1432]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]], Italian humanist (b. [[1463]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Steven Vanden Broecke|title=The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0yDeNFZOT4C&pg=PA55|date=1 January 2003|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-13169-8|pages=55|language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 19]] or [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Matteo Maria Boiardo]], Italian poet (b. c. [[1434]]-[[1441]])

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