1493

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1490 1491 1492 – 1493 – 1494 1495 1496

Events

• January 4 – Christopher Columbus leaves the New World.
• March 15 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
• July 28 – Great fire in Moscow.
• September 9 – Battle of Krbava field between defending Croatian nobles and invading Ottoman Turk forces.
• November 19 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
• December 23 – Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.