Events

• January 3 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
• March 10 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
• July - Spanish forces under Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordoba capture Atella after a siege. Among the prisoners is the French viceroy of Naples, the Comte de Montpensier. Ferrante II is restored to the throne of Naples.
• Jesus College (University of Cambridge) founded.

Births

• May 12 - Gustav Vasa, later King Gustav I of Sweden

Deaths

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