1493
| Years: 1490 1491 1492 - 1493 - 1494 1495 1496 | |
| Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s | |
| Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century | |
| 1493 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1493 MCDXCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2246 |
| Armenian calendar | 942 ԹՎ ՋԽԲ |
| Chinese calendar | 4129/4189-12-14 (壬子年十二月十四日) — to — 4130/4190-11-23(癸丑年十一月廿三日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1485 – 1486 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5253 – 5254 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1548 – 1549 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1415 – 1416 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4594 – 4595 |
| Iranian calendar | 871 – 872 |
| Islamic calendar | 898 – 899 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2036 |
1493 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
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Events
- January - Ivan III of Russia declares himself gosudar' vseja Rusi - "Lord of all Rus'".
- January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World.
- March 15 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
- May 4 - Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line.
- July 28 - Great fire in Moscow.
- September 9 - Battle of Krbava field between defending Croatian nobles and invading Ottoman Turk forces.
- 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).
- December 23 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
Births
- June 5 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (died 1555)
- September 28 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (died c1545)
- October 14 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (died 1568)
- November 12 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (died 1560)
- Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (died 1560)
- Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and Lord Chancellor (died 1555)
- Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (died 1541)
- Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (died 1573)
- Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (died 1541)
- Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (died 1580)
- François Rabelais, French writer (died 1553)
Deaths
- May 10 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (born c1433)
- 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 c1441)
- Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (born 1450)
- Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu
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