February 9 – The crew of the Portuguese ship Cirne, commanded by Diogo Fernandes Pereira, become the first Europeans to sight the Indian ocean island of Réunion, and name it Santa Apolonia.[2]
March 1 – Eleven months after the Lisbon Massacre, King Manuel I of Portugal issues an edict permitting the cristãos-novos ("New Christians", Portuguese Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity) to freely emigrate from the kingdom.[3]
March 11 – Italian mercenary leader and former prince Cesare Borgia, later cited by Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince as an example of "conquest by fortune",[4] completes his conquest of the Spanish city of Viana by driving out the defenders of the castle of the Count of Lerín, but makes the mistake of pursuing the fleeing enemy by himself. He is killed the next day by his captors.[5][6]
April 10 – Installed by the Revolutionary Council, Paolo da Novi becomes the first Doge of the Republic of Genoa in almost 19 years, after the office had been made vacant in 1488 by the conqueror Francesco Sforza.[9] He reigns for only 18 days before fleeing from office by French occupation forces on April 28, and the dogeship will remain vacant again for five years.[10]
In India, in what is now the state of Kerala, troops from the Kingdom of Cannanore begin a four-month siege of the Portuguese garrison at the Fort of Saint Angelo. Despite being outnumbered, the 150 defenders of the fort hold out for four months against 60,000 attackers until rescue arrives four months later.
In Italy, King Louis XII of France departs from Genoa[7]: 85 and makes a triumphant entry into Milan on May 24.
June 4 – Having been denied recognition by Pope Julius II as King of Naples, King Ferdinand II of Aragon departs from Naples to return to his home in Spain.[13]
June 28 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon is welcomed by King Louis XII of France at the Italian city of Savona in a spectacular ceremony,[14] and the two monarchs begin a series of meetings on the division of the Italian kingdoms between France and Spain.[15]
July—September
July 3 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon and King Louis XII of France complete their six-day summit at Savona.[15]
August 10 – Afonso de Albuquerque departs with six ships from the Yemeni island of Socotra to begin pillaging towns along the way to conquering the Persian Gulf port of Hormuz.
September 15 – King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland, to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar "to furnis and bring hame ane prent, with all stuff belangand tharto, and expert men to use the samyne, for imprenting within our Realme of the bukis of our Lawis, actis of parliament, croniclis, mess bukis, and portuus efter the use of our Realme, with addicions and legendis of Scottis sanctis, now gaderit to be ekit tharto, and al utheris bukis that salbe sene necessar, and to sel the sammyn for competent pricis."[17]
November 24 – Portuguese Admiral Tristao da Cunha, with 12 ships, attacks a fleet of 13 Muslim merchant ships leaving the Indian port of Ponnani, and is confronted by the forces of Kutti Ali. The Portuguese win the battle.
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^ abPatrick Williams, Katharine of Aragon: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's First Unfortunate Wife (Amberley Publishing, 2013)
^John S. C. Abbott, The Romance of Spanish History (Harper & Brothers, 1869) p.286
^ ab"Cambray (League)", in The Manual of Dates: a Dictionary of Reference to All the Most Important Events in the History of Mankind to be Found in Authentic Records, ed. by George H. Townsend (Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1862) p.171
^Sahagún, Bernardino de; Sahagún), Bernardino (de; Guerra, José Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y (1829). Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espanã (in Spanish). Impr. del ciudadano A. Valdés. p. 347. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
^Damkaer, David M. (2002). The Copepodologist's Cabinet: a biographical and bibliographical history, Volume 1. American Philosophical Society. p. 15. ISBN978-0-87169-240-5.
^Blanch Sánchez, Antonio (2018). "Inés Suárez. A favor o en contra". España y América. Cultura y colonización: V Centenario del nacimiento de Pedro Cieza de León, cronista de Indias (1518-1554). XIX Jornadas de Historia en Llerena, 2018, ISBN 978-84-09-09652-7, págs. 195-206. Sociedad Extremeña de Historia: 195–206. ISBN9788409096527. Retrieved July 6, 2023.