Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), for example, rejected the 4-elemental theory, and with only a vague understanding of his chemicals and medicines formed a hybrid of alchemy and science in what was to be called iatrochemistry.

The Mapuche fought against the Sapa Tupac Inca Yupanqui ( c. 1471 – 1493 ) and his army.

* 1991 – A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the death of 34 persons, and the injury of 30 others.

* Frederick V of Austria ( 1415 – 1493 ), or Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick the Peaceful KG ( September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493 ) was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 1452.

# Johann, Viceroy of Valencia ( 9 January 1493, Plassenburg – 5 July 1525, Valencia ).

A similar figure was the Swiss magician known as Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), who published Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature in which he emphasised the distinction between good and bad magic.

After two years, he gave up his appointment to pursue his studies at Leipzig, where, as rector, he received the support of the professor of classics, Peter Mosellanus ( 1493 – 1525 ), a celebrated humanist of the time, with whom he had already been in correspondence.

Muhammad Ture ( 1493 – 1528 ) founded the Askiya Dynasty, askiya being the title of the king.

* Eleonora Gonzaga ( 31 December 1493 – 13 February 1570 ), married Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, by whom she had issue.

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.

* 1493 – Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.

* 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

* 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.

His successor Askia Muhammad Ture ( 1493 – 1528 ) made Islam the official religion, built mosques, and brought Muslim scholars, including al-Maghili ( d. 1504 ), the founder of an important tradition of Sudanic African Muslim scholarship, to Gao.

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before.

* 1567 – Anne de Montmorency, Marshal and Constable of France ( b. 1493 )

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.

* 1493 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord ( d. 1568 )

* 1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer ( b. 1493 )

In 1507 he was appointed tutor to Emperor Maximilian I's ( 1493 – 1519 ) seven year old grandson, Charles, who was later to become Emperor Charles V ( 1519 – 56 ).

While Frederick refused, his more conciliatory son finally convened the Diet at Worms in 1495, after his father's death in 1493.

While Croats under Italian Franciscan priest fra John Capistrano contributed to the Christian victory over the Ottomans in the Siege of Belgrade of 1456, they suffered a major defeat in the battle of Krbava field ( in Lika, Croatia ) in 1493 and gradually lost increasing amounts of territory to the Ottoman Empire.

The earliest painted Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle ( Albrecht Dürer ) | Self-Portrait ( 1493 ) by Albrecht Dürer, oil, originally on vellum ( Louvre, Paris )

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

Depiction of the Venerable Bede ( on CLVIIIv ) from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

Christopher Columbus named the island after the day of the week on which he spotted it-a Sunday (' Doménica ' in Italian )-which fell on 3 November 1493 on his second voyage.

On Columbus second voyage in 1493 the colony of " La Española " was founded and administered from the new settlement of La Isabela which was established on the north coast.

During his second trip to America, in November 1493, Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Guadeloupe, while seeking fresh water.

Columbus is credited with discovering the pineapple on the island of Guadeloupe in 1493, although the fruit had long been grown in South America.

When he returned in 1493 on his second voyage he found the settlement had been destroyed and all 39 settlers killed.

Colombus continued east and founded a new settlement at La Isabela on the territory of the present day Dominican Republic in 1493.

Hispaniola is the site of the first European colonies in the New World, which were founded by Christopher Columbus on his voyages in 1492 and 1493.

He married Lucrezia on 12 June 1493 in Rome.

In the following months he carved a wooden crucifix ( 1493 ), as a gift to the prior of the Florentine church of Santo Spirito, which had permitted him some studies of anatomy on the corpses of the church's hospital.

* Discovery to the Eastern World of Puerto Rico by Christopher Columbus on November 19, 1493.

The islands were named by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage in 1493 for Saint Ursula and her virgin followers.

Conversely, Elijah Delmedigo ( c. 1458 – c. 1493 ), in his Bechinat ha-Dat endeavored to show that the Zohar could not be attributed to Shimon bar Yochai, arguing that if it were his work, the Zohar would have been mentioned by the Talmud, as has been the case with other works of the Talmudic period, that had bar Yochai known by divine revelation the hidden meaning of the precepts, his decisions on Jewish law from the Talmudic period would have been adopted by the Talmud, that it would not contain the names of rabbis who lived at a later period than that of Simeon ; and that if the Kabbalah was a revealed doctrine, there would have been no divergence of opinion among the Kabbalists concerning the mystic interpretation of the precepts.

Year 1493 ( MCDXCIII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar ).

Elected King of the Romans 16 February 1486 in Frankfurt-am-Main at his father's initiative and crowned on 9 April 1486 in Aachen, Maximilian also stood at the head of the Holy Roman Empire upon his father's death in 1493.

Christopher Columbus landed on the islands in 1493 during his second voyage naming the larger one Santa Maria de la Antigua.

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

This was accomplished by the Treaty of Tordesillas ( June 7, 1494 ) which modified the delimitation authorized by Pope Alexander VI in two bulls issued on May 4, 1493.

The Ciboney were the first to inhabit the island of Barbuda in 2400 BC, but Arawak and Carib Indians populated the island when Christopher Columbus landed on his second voyage in 1493.