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Calendar year
Year 1495 (
MCDXCV ) was a
common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–December
February –
King's College, Aberdeen , predecessor of the
University of Aberdeen in
Scotland , is founded on the petition of
William Elphinstone ,
Bishop of Aberdeen . It is the first
English -speaking university to teach medicine.
February 22 –
Italian War of 1494–98 : King
Charles VIII of France enters
Naples , to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin
Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as viceroy.
Syphilis is first definitely recorded in Europe during this invasion.
[1] (perhaps from French forces who may have contacted Croats fleeing an Ottoman army in the east).
May 26 – A Spanish army under
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba lands in
Calabria , with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring
Ferdinand II of Naples to the throne.
June 1 – Brother
John Cor of
Lindores Abbey pays duty on 8 bolls of malt to the
Exchequer in Scotland to make aqua vitae for
King James IV ; the record in the Exchequer Rolls is the first written reference to
Scotch whisky .
June 28 –
Battle of Seminara : Córdoba and Ferdinand are defeated by a French army under
Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny .
July 3 –
Battle of Deal :
Perkin Warbeck 's troops land in
Kent , in support of his claim to the
English crown , backed by
Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy . They are routed before Warbeck himself can disembark, and he retreats to
Ireland and then to Scotland.
July 6 –
Battle of Fornovo : The French army under King Charles secures its retreat from Italy, by defeating a combined Milanese-Venetian force under Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of
Mantua .
Summer –
John, King of Denmark , sets sail for
Kalmar ,
Sweden , to negotiate with
Sten Sture the Elder to restore the power of the
Kalmar Union . However, his flagship,
Gribshunden , catches fire and sinks off the coast of
Ronneby with loss of life, and he is forced to abandon the mission.
October 25 – King
Manuel I of Portugal begins his reign.
November 30 – An explosion at
Vyborg Castle deters the
Russian forces, who have invaded Sweden through
Karelia .
Date unknown
Reisszug , as it appeared in 2011
Births
January 26 –
Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d.
1557 )
February 4
February 13 –
Giacomo Puteo , Spanish cardinal (d.
1563 )
March 6 –
Luigi Alamanni , Italian poet and statesman (d.
1556 )
March 8 –
John of God , Portuguese friar and saint (d.
1550 )
March 26 –
Michele Antonio, Marquess of Saluzzo (d.
1528 )
March 29 –
Leonhard Päminger , Austrian composer (d.
1567 )
April 16 –
Petrus Apianus , German humanist (d.
1552 )
August 1 –
Jan van Scorel , Dutch painter (d.
1562 )
August 24 –
Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg , Prince of Lüneburg and Baron of Harburg (d.
1549 )
September 18 –
Louis X, Duke of Bavaria , German noble (d.
1545 )
September 20 –
Gian Matteo Giberti , Catholic bishop (d.
1543 )
September 23 –
Bagrat III of Imereti , King of Imereti (d.
1565 )
September 24 –
Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach , Landgravine of Leuchtenberg (d.
1552 )
November 1 –
Erhard Schnepf , German theologian (d.
1558 )
November 21 –
John Bale , English churchman (d.
1563 )
[6]
December 5 –
Nicolas Cleynaerts , Flemish grammarian (d.
1542 )
date unknown
probable
Deaths
January 11 –
Pedro González de Mendoza , Spanish cardinal and statesman (b.
1428 )
January 21 –
Magdalena of France , French princess and regent of Navarre (b.
1443 )
February 25 –
Sultan Cem , pretender to the Ottoman throne (b.
1459 )
May 31 –
Cecily Neville , English duchess, mother of
Edward IV of England and
Richard III of England (b.
1415 )
September –
Vlad Călugărul , Wallachian half-brother of
Vlad III (The Impaler)
September 14 –
Elizabeth Tudor , English princess, daughter of
Henry VII of England (b.
1492 )
October 25 – King
John II of Portugal (b.
1455 )
[8]
October 30 –
Francis, Count of Vendome (b.
1470 )
December 16 –
Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France , French noble (b.
1492 )
December 18 – King
Alphonso II of Naples (b.
1448 )
December 21 –
Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (b. c.
1431 )
References
^ Farhi, David; Dupin, Nicolas (September–October 2010). "Origins of syphilis and management in the immunocompetent patient: facts and controversies".
Clinics in Dermatology . 28 (5): 533–538.
doi :
10.1016/j.clindermatol.2010.03.011 .
PMID
20797514 .
^
"Der Reiszug – Part 1 – Presentation" . Funimag. Retrieved April 22, 2009 .
^ Kriechbaum, Reinhard (15 May 2004).
"Die große Reise auf den Berg" . der Tagespost (in German). Archived from
the original on 28 June 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2009 .
^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History . Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
^
"Epistles, Gospels, and Popular Readings in the Tuscan Language" .
World Digital Library . June 27, 1495. Retrieved September 4, 2013 .
^
"John Bale | English bishop and author" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
^
"Cuauhtémoc" (in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas. Retrieved June 1, 2019 .
^ Hourihane, Colum (2012).
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture . OUP USA. p. 217.
ISBN
9780195395365 .