Major Events
- Jan 28 Pope Alexander VI (Roderic Llançol i de Borgia) gives his son Cesare as hostage to Charles VIII of France
- Feb 22 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown
- Mar 31 Pope Alexander VI forms the anti-French alliance the League of Venice with Archduke of Austria Maximilian I, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza and the Republic of Venice
- May 20 French King Charles VIII leaves Naples
- Jun 1 First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller
- Jul 6 Battle of Fornovo, near Parma: French King Charles VIII beats Holy League
- Jul 7 King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
- Jul 20 French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders
- Nov 27 Scottish king James IV receives Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English trone
Born in 1495
- Mar 6 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione), born in Florence (d. 1556)
- Mar 8 John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint, founder of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, born in Montemor-o-Novo, Évora, Portugal (d. 1550)
- Mar 25 Leonhard Paminger, Austrian composer, poet and theologian, born in Aschach an der Donau (d. 1567)
- Apr 16 Petrus Apianus [Peter Apian], German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer, born in Leisnig, Saxony (d. 1552)
- Aug 1 Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter and architect, born in Schoorl, Netherlands (d. 1562)
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