Decades: 1440s 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s
1520s 1530s 1540s Years: 1488 1489 1490 1491 1492 - 1493 - 1494
1495 1496 1497 1498 January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the
New World, ending his first journey March 15 - Christopher
Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
November 19 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to
go ashore on an island he only saw for the first time the day
before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto
Rico). June 14, Ermolao Barbaro Frederick III, Holy Roman
Emperor