What is 1496?
{{Year nav|1496}} {{Year in various calendars|1496}} {{Year article header|1496}} == 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, Cambridge|Jesus College]] (University of Cambridge) founded. == Births == * [[March 28]] – [[Mary Tudor (queen consort of France)|Mary Tudor]], queen of [[Louis XII of France]] (died [[1533]]) * [[May 12]] – King [[Gustav I of Sweden]] (died [[1560]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Claude, Duke of Guise]], French soldier (died [[1550]]) * [[François Bonivard]], Swiss historian (died [[1570]]) * [[Edward Foxe|Edward Fox]], English churchman (died [[1538]]) * [[Richard Maitland]], Scottish poet (died [[1586]]) * [[Clément Marot]], French poet (died [[1544]]) * [[Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland)|Anthony St Leger]], Lord Deputy of Ireland (died [[1559]]) * [[Menno Simons]], Dutch religious leader (died [[1561]]) * [[Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester]] (died [[1549]]) == Deaths == * [[March 4]] – Archduke [[Sigismund of Austria]] (born [[1427]]) * [[September 7]] – King [[Ferdinand II of Naples]] (born [[1469]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Piero Capponi]], Italian soldier and statesman (born [[1447]]) * [[Piero del Pollaiuolo]], Italian painter (born [[1443]]) [[Category:1496| ]]