1495

This article is about the year 1495.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1492 1493 1494 – 1495 – 1496 1497 1498

1495 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1495 in poetry

1495 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1495 MCDXCV
Ab urbe condita	2248
Armenian calendar	944 ԹՎ ՋԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	6245
Bengali calendar	902
Berber calendar	2445
English Regnal year	10 Hen. 7 – 11 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2039
Burmese calendar	857
Byzantine calendar	7003–7004
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4191 or 4131     — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4192 or 4132
Coptic calendar	1211–1212
Discordian calendar	2661
Ethiopian calendar	1487–1488
Hebrew calendar	5255–5256
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1551–1552
- Shaka Samvat	1417–1418
- Kali Yuga	4596–4597
Holocene calendar	11495
Igbo calendar	495–496
Iranian calendar	873–874
Islamic calendar	900–901
Japanese calendar	Meiō 4 (明応４年)
Julian calendar	1495 MCDXCV
Korean calendar	3828
Minguo calendar	417 before ROC 民前417年
Thai solar calendar	2037–2038

Year 1495 (MCDXCV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

Events

January–December

• February – King's College, Aberdeen, predecessor of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, is founded on the petition of William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen. It is the first English-speaking university to teach medicine.
• February 22 – Italian War of 1494–98: 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. Syphilis is first definitely recorded in Europe during this invasion (perhaps from French forces who may have contacted Croats fleeing an Ottoman army in the east).
• May 26 – A Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba lands in Calabria with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferdinand II of Naples to the throne.
• June 1 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
• June 28 – Battle of Seminara: Córdoba and Ferdinand are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny.
• July 3 – Perkin Warbeck's troops land in Kent, in support of his claim to the English crown, backed by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. They are routed before Warbeck himself can disembark, and he retreats to Ireland and then to Scotland.
• 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.
• Summer – John, King of Denmark, sets sail for Kalmar in Sweden to negotiate with Sten Sture the Elder to restore the power of the Kalmar Union. However, his flagship, Gribshunden, catches fire and sinks off the coast of Ronneby with loss of life and he is forced to abandon the mission.
• October 25 – King Manuel I of Portugal begins his reign.
• November 30 – An explosion at Vyborg Castle deters the Russian forces who have invaded Sweden through Karelia.

Date unknown

• Poynings' Law comes into effect, placing the Parliament of Ireland under the authority of the Parliament of England.
• The Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire is founded in Frankfurt.
• Henry VII of England commissions the world's first dry dock at Portsmouth.
• Piero Pacini da Pescia publishes Epistles, Gospels, and Popular Readings in the Tuscan Language

Births

• March 6 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)
• March 8 – John of God, Spanish friar and saint (d. 1550)
• April 16 – Petrus Apianus, German humanist (d. 1557)
• August 1 – Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter (d. 1562)
• November 21 – John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563)
• December 5 – Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
• date unknown
  • Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (d. 1540)
  • Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (d. 1568)
• probable
  • Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (d. 1541)
  • Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (d. 1545)
  • Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer (d. 1560)

Deaths

• January 11 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
• February 25 – Cem Sultan, pretender to the Ottoman throne (b. 1459)
• May 31 – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1415)
• September – Vlad Călugărul
• September 14 – Elizabeth Tudor (1492-1495), daughter of Henry VII of England
• October 25 – King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
• December 18 – King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
• December 21 – Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (b. c. 1431)