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| Years: 1490 1491 1492 - 1493 - 1494 1495 1496 | |
| Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s | |
| Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century | |
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
- October 14 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
- November 12 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian artist and sculptor (b. 1560)
- Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541)
Deaths
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