History
1504
General
Population: 463 Million*
- Entertainment: Art includes Cranach "Rest on the Flight to Egypt", Dürer "Nativity", Giorgione "Madonna" of Castelfranco Cathedral,
Raphael "Marriage of the Virgin", Michelangelo finishes David
- Exploration: End of Columbus' last (fourth/second) voyage
- Technology: A single-handed watch invented by Peter Henlein of Nuremburg GER
- Deaths: Artist Filippino Lippi, Queen Isabella of Aragon
Africa
- Egypt: Venice sends ambassadors to Sultan of Turkey proposing construction of Suez Canal
Asia
- India: India's Mughals under Babur expelled from Ferghana by the Uzbegs
Europe
- General: Treaty of Lyons – Louis XII cedes Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon – Naples under Spanish control until 1707
Treaty OF Blois – Charles age 4 son of Philip and Juana and future Emperor Charles V - betrothed to Claude infant dau of Louis VII but engagement broken off in 1506
- England: Henry VII places English guilds under control of the crown
- German States: Bavarian War – Rupert son of Elector Palatine defeated by Albert of Bavaria – hero of feuds is Gotz
- Italian States: Venice sends ambassadors to Sultan of Turkey proposing construction of Suez Canal
- Russia: Vasili III named "Sovereign of All Russia"
- Spain: Death of Isabella I Queen of Aragon – Juana now heir of Castile
Bull by Pope Julius II establishes University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain
Columbus returns from last voyage
Middle East
- Afghanistan: Babar (Babur) captures Kabul in Afghanistan
- Ottoman Empire: Venice sends ambassadors to Sultan of Turkey proposing construction of Suez Canal