1495
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| Years: 1492 1493 1494 - 1495 - 1496 1497 1498 | |
| Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s | |
| Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century | |
Events
- February 22 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as Viceroy.
- May 26 - A Spanish army under Hernandez Gonzalo de Cordoba lands in Calabria with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples.
- June 1 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
- June 28 - Battle of Seminara. Cordoba and Ferrante are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stuart, Seigneur d'Aubigny.
- July 6 - Battle of Fornovo - The French army under King Charles secures its retreat from Italy by defeating a combined Milanese-Venetian force under Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua.
- December 25 -Second Battle of Acentejo -The Spanish crush native forces of the island of Tenerife, leading to the subjugation of this last bastion of resistance in the Canary Islands.
- Russia invades Sweden through Karelia, but the Russian troops are beaten back at Vyborg.
- Founding of the Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire.
Births
- March 6 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)
- April 16 - Petrus Apianus, German humanist (died 1557)
- November 21 - John Bale, English churchman (died 1563)
- December 5 - Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
- Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador
- Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (died 1540)
- Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (died 1570)
- Costanzo Festa, Italian composer
- John of God, Spanish friar and saint (died 1550)
- Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer
- Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (died 1568)
Deaths
- January 11 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (born 1428)
- May 31 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (born 1415)
- September 14 - Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England (born 1492)
- October 25 - King John II of Portugal (born 1455)
- December 18 - King Alphonso II of Naples (born 1448)
- December 21 - Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford
- Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (born 1459)
