1504

1504 was a year of the Gregorian calendar, that started on a Friday.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1501 1502 1503 – 1504 – 1505 1506 1507

Events

• January 1 – French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
• January 31 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
• February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
• Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti) finishes his sculpture of David – August 8 it is erected in Florence.
• Moldavia, Stephan III the Great fights against Turkey and Poland.
• Baber besieges and captures Kabul.
• Ferdinand II of Aragon becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
• Christopher Columbus return to Spain from his fourth voyage where he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
• Aldo Manuzio publishes Demosthenes.
• Grünenwald: "Crucifixion".
• Voyage of Juan de la Cosa to South America.
• A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Black Sultanate (As Saltana az Zarqa) at Sennar. (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah))

Births

• August 6 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1574)
• Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer

Deaths

• November 9 – King Frederick IV of Naples
• November 26 – Queen Isabella of Castile (born 1451)
• Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer