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| Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
| Decades: | 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s |
| Years: | 1490 1491 1492 - 1493 - 1494 1495 1496 |
[change] Events
- January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World.
- 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.
