1495

1495

Year 1495 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

Events of 1495

* February 22 - 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.
* May 26 - A Spanish army under Gonzalo de Córdoba lands in Calabria, with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples.
* June 1 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
* June 28 - Battle of Seminara: Cordoba and Ferrante are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny.
* 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.
* 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.
* December 25 - 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.

Undated

* The Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire is founded.
* Henry VII of England commissions the world's first dry dock at Portsmouth.
* The University of Aberdeen is founded by Bishop William Elphinstone.

Births

* March 6 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)
* March 8 - John of God, Spanish friar and saint (d. 1550)
* April 16 - Petrus Apianus, German humanist (d. 1557)
* November 21 - John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563)
* December 5 - Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
*"date unknown"
**Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (d. 1540)
**Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (d. 1568)
*"probable"
**Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)
**Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (d. 1545)
**Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer (d. 1560)

Deaths

* January 11 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
* February 25 - Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (b. 1459)
* May 31 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1415)
* September 14 - Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (b. 1492)
* October 25 - King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
* December 18 - King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
* December 21 - Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (b. c. 1431)


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