1503

This page relates to the year 1503 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Forwarding of Fernão de Noronha with the Brazil. It arrives with six small ships and cut 20 000 quintals of wood Brazil. It signed with the king of Portugal a three year old renewable contract. In 1511, it brings back to Lisbon 5000 trunks of wood Brazil with its nave Bretoa.
Juan Bermudez discovers the Bermuda which will be named according to him.
the navigator Amerigo Vespucci puts forth the assumption that the grounds discovered by Christophe Colomb are not the Indies but a new continent.

June: The Uzbek Mohammed Sheibani demolishes the Mongols and Ouïgour of the Mogholistan to the battle of Aski to the Ferghâna, enters to Kholand and Andidjan.
Bâbur is driven out of Transoxiane by Mohammed Sheibani.
Beginning of the reign of Mansur, khan Djaghataïde (fine in 1543)

Afonso de Albuquerque with the India S: occupation of Cochin.
Francisco de Almeida seizes Socotra, which orders the Red Sea and occupies Ormuz at the entry of the Persian Gulf to bar the two access roads of Indian spices to the the Mediterranean.

the Séfévide Shah Ismaïl, eager to avenge death for his/her father and supported by the Kizil Bach (“red heads”, Shiite Turkish certainly attached to the chamanic traditions) overcomes Alwand ibn Yusuf, sultan of the Ak Koyunlu, (1502) and its successor Murad (1503) and enters Tabriz where he proclaims Chah.

exceptionally hot Years in France and Germany of the South (1503 - 1504).
Portugal: Bad harvests. Threats of famine. Popular riots against the marranes with Lisbon with the Pentecost and with Evora in April.

February 13rd: Disfida di Barletta .
April 21st: French defeat of Stuart d' Aubigny with Seminara.
April 22nd: Free-Switzerland agreement: the Swiss ones obtain the county of Bellinzona, on the top Tessin.
April 28th: French defeat of the Viceroy of Naples, Louis of Armagnac, duke of Nemours, with the Battle of Cérignole.
May 28th: Perpetual peace treaty enters the England and the Scotland.
June 12th: The Spanish general Gonzalve de Cordoue force French to give up Naples.
July: the French Army of help to the orders of Trémoille passes the the Alps.
August 8th: Jacques IV Stuart wife Marguerite Tudor, girl of Henri VII of England, marriage at the origin of the rights of the Stuart on the crown of England.
September 22nd: Election of the Pope Black and white III; Pontificate of Black and white III of September 22nd to the October 18th.
November 1st: Election with the Pontificate of Jules II (fine in 1513).
December 29th: Battle of Garigliano. The Spain completes the conquest of the Royaume of Naples.

the tsar Ivan III reconquers a third of the Russian grounds of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It signs a ten years Truce with Alexandre of Lithuania which recognizes to him the possessions of Tchernigov, Briansk, Poutivl, Gomet and most of the districts of Smolensk and Vitebsk.
Victoire of Moscow on the Knights carry-swords which had attacked Pskov.
Quarrel between the Nile of Sora, a hermit recommending the abandonment by the Church of the tangible properties, and the abbot Joseph de Volokolamsk, in favor of a paramount role of the Church and its possessions in the name of its social work. The council slices in favor of Joseph.

With Florence, Léonard de Vinci takes share, as engineer, with the war against Pisa. Towards the end of the year, the Seigniory charges it with representing the battles of Anghiari in the room of the large council of the Palazzo Vecchio whereas, in same time, one entrusts the representation of the battles of Cascina to Michel-Angel.
Construction of the wing Louis XII with the Castle of Blois.
Construction of the Vault of Henry VII, with the Abbey of Westminster.

Enchiridion militis christianis ( Manual of the Christian knight ), theological handbook of Erasme (conjunction enters the religion and freedom).
the Arioste begins the furious Roland (published in 1516).

the First historical description of the Cholera by an European (an officer of Vasco de Gama), who described an epidemic of cataclysmic diarrheas quickly mortals (in 8 hours) and having caused 20 000 died with Calicut (India).
the use of the Arquebuse S helps the Spaniards to demolish the French in Italy.

After 1503, the Poivre is sold five times less expensive with Lisbon than with Venice.
Fondation of the Put of Contratacion of Seville, which exerts a monopoly for the exchanges with the America (armament of the ships, role of crew, passports of emigration).
the pope authorizes the teutonic Chevaliers to sell to Indulgence S.
the German financier Welser obtains a contract of monopoly for the trade with the Indies Occidentales.

January 11th: Francesco Mazzola, known as the Parmesan, painter and Italian aquafortist in Parma.
September 20th: Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, humanistic and theologist Polish († 1572)
November 17th: Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo), Italian painter.
December 14th: Nostradamus.

April 7th: Sophie Paleologist, woman of Ivan III of Russia and sovereign of Russia.
April 28th: the viceroy of Naples, Louis of Armagnac, duke of Nemours, killed with Cerignola.
August 18th: the Pope Alexandre VI of the Malaria ( malaria tropicalis , come from America).
October 18th: the Pope Black and white III.
December 14th: Sten Sture Old the, regent of Sweden.
December 28th: Pierre II of Médicis (birth 1471)

Pedro Berruguete, painter of Valladolid.
Giovanni Pontano, with Naples, politician and writer (born in 1426).
Antonio Bonfini, humanistic Italian (born in 1434), author of a History of Hungary ordered by Mathias Corvin.

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