1496

This page relates to the year 1496 Calendrier Julien.

Events

March 5th: Henri VII of England sticks the services of Jean Cabot by letter patent for découvrier of the unknown grounds.
March 10th: Christophe Colomb leaves the government of Hispaniola to his/her brother Bartolomeo and returns to Spain in June with Juan de Aguado.
June 11th: Christophe Colomb is of return in Spain. It is received by the Kings Catholiques with Burgos in August. It obtains win to prepare a third voyage, but the Isabelle queen orders that only Castilians from now on are sent to the Indies. Catalans and Génois are excluded from the conquest.

Foundation of Santo Domingo to Haiti by Bartolomeo Colomb, first city created by European in America (foundation officlèle the August 5th 1498).

July 25th: Conquest of Tenerife, with the the Canaries, by Alonso Fernandez de Lugo.

April 16th: Beginning of the reign of Philippe II of Savoy (fine in 1497).
July: Capitulation of the French garrison of Naples (Gilbert de Montpensier), encircled with Atella by Gonzalve de Cordoue.
September 7th: Beginning of the reign of Frederic Ier (1452-1504), king of Deux-Siciles (fine in 1501).
October 20th: Philippe the Beautiful wife Jeanne Insane the.
December 5th: Decree of expulsion or forced conversion of the Jewish and the Moslems of the Portugal promulgated in Muje. They have ten months to leave the country. Gathered with Lisbon, they will have to be evacuated on boats, towards the the Azores or the Africa.
December: The Portuguese government concluded that Colomb could not arrive at the Indies and decides a new forwarding on the road of the Cape of Good Hope.

Maximilien Ier creates with Innsbruck a general, qualified treasury for the worldwide hereditary of the house of Austria.
Gerald the Large one, independent Norman prince, is confirmed Lord-deputy of Ireland.

Creation of the University of Aberdeen (Scotland).
Foundation of the monastery of the monks of Saint-Jerome ( monastery of Jerónimos ) in Belem, close to Lisbon.
Edition of the Book of the Wonders of the World of Marco Polo to Venice.
Sture krönika , chronicle treating of the history of the Sweden of 1389 with 1496.

the first description of the seedling of Tabac appears in Europe.
Establishment of a wearing of war with Toulon.
February: Henri VII of England concluded from the commercial treaties with Venice, Florence, cities of the Hanse and the Netherlands ( Magnus intercursus ).
In Poland, first laws fixing the peasant at the ground (new Serfdom). It is interdict with the middle-class men of the towns of become landowners.

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