Events

• May 20 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut (now Kozhikode), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa
• May 23 - Girolamo Savonarola, ruler of Florence, is executed for criticizing the Pope.
• July 31 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
• Christopher Columbus lands on the South American continent.

Births

Deaths

• May 23 - Girolamo Savonarola, religious reformer and one time ruler of Florence.

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