History
1496 
World
General
Population: 456 Million*- Entertainment: Writers include Juan del Encina Cancionero (Easter play), Johann Reuchlin Sergius (Latin comedy),
Marino Sanudo (diary of Venetian life)
Art includes Michelangelo's first stay in Rome, Perugino "Madonna with the Saints of Perugia"
Music includes Franchino Gafori (treatise on composition), Music first printed – France - Exploration: Columbus returns from second voyage
- Science: Romano Pane – monk who accompanied Columbus describes tobacco plant
- Deaths: Ferdinand II of Naples
Americas
- General: Teneriffe becomes Spanish
- Hispaniola: Columbus founds Santo Domingo on Hispanola
Europe
- General: Commercial treaty between England and the Netherlands
- England: James IV of Scotland invades Northumberland in support of Perkin Warbeck
John Colet lectures at Oxford
Henry VII of England joins Holy League
Jesus College at Cambridge founded by John Alcock
Henry VII commissions Venetian navigator John Cabot and his son Sebastian to discover new route to Asia - France: Philip the Handsome – Duke of Burgundy –son of Maximilian I marries Juana heiress of Spain
- Italian States: Death of Ferdinand II of Naples – succeeded by Frederick III
- Scotland: James IV of Scotland invades Northumberland in support of Perkin Warbeck
- Spain: Pope Alexander VI titles Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain "the Catholic"
Child Philip I marries Joan of Castile - Sweden: Gustavus I Vasa king of Sweden
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