What is 1493?
{{Year nav|1493}} {{Year in various calendars|1493}} {{Year article header|1493}} ==Events== * [[March 15]] – [[Christopher Columbus]] returns to [[Spain]] after his first trip to the [[Americas]]. * [[July 28]] – Great fire in [[Moscow]]. * [[September 9]] – [[Battle of Krbava field]] between defending Croatian nobles and invading Ottoman Turk forces. * [[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]]). * [[December 23]] – [[Georg Alt's German]] translation of [[Hartmann Schedel]]'s ''[[Nuremberg Chronicle]]'' is published. [[Category:1493| ]]