1493

Events

• January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World.
• March 15 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
• July 28 - Great fire in Moscow
• November 19 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

Births

• June 5 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (died 1555)
• October 14 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (died 1568)
• November 11 - Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (died 1541)
• November 12 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (died 1560)
• Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (approximate date; died 1560)
• Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and Lord Chancellor (approximate date; died 1555)
• Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (died 1541)
• Takeda Nobutora, Japanese feudal lord (daimyo) who controlled the Province of Kai (died 1573)
• François Rabelais, French writer (approximate date; died 1553)

Deaths

• May 10 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll (born c. 1433)
• June 14 - Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (born 1454)
• August 19 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1415)
• James Blount, English soldier
• James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
• Martin Alonzo Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer (born c. 1441)
• Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (born 1450)
• Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu