Year ( MDIV ) was a Leap Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian Calendar .
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- Moldavia , Stephen III the Great fights against Turkey and Poland .
- Baber besieges and captures Kabul .
- Ferdinand II Of Aragon becomes King Of Naples as Ferdinand III.
- Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage where he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama .
- Aldo Manuzio publishes Demosthenes .
- Grünenwald : "Crucifixion".
- Voyage of Juan De La Cosa is made to South America .
- A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas , founds the Sultanate of Sennar ( History Of Sudan ).
- In Florence , Leonardo Da Vinci and Machiavelli become involved in a scheme to divert the Arno River , cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, failed to follow da Vinci’s design, and the project was a major failure.
- The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio .
- Raphael paints "The Marriage of the Virgin" (exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art).
- Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal .
- January 17 - Pope Pius V (died 1572 )
- April 30 - Francesco Primaticcio , Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (died 1570 )
- May 5 - Stanislaus Hosius , Polish cardinal (died 1579 )
- July 18 - Heinrich Bullinger , Swiss religious reformer (died 1575 )
- August 6 - Matthew Parker , Archbishop Of Canterbury (died 1574 )
- November - Giovanni Battista Giraldi , Italian novelist and poet (died 1573 )
- November 13 - Philipp I Of Hesse (died 1567 )
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- --- Patrick Hamilton , Scottish churchman and Reformer (died 1528 )
- --- Dirk Philips , early Anabaptist writer and theologian (died 1568 )
- --- Nicholas Udall , English playwright and schoolmaster (died 1556 )
- ''probable'' - Jacques Arcadelt , Franco-Flemish composer (died 1568 )
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