* c. 1492 BC — Thutmose I dies ( other date is 1493 BC ).

* 1493 – Andrei the Elder dies in prison ; Ivan seizes his land

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

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.

Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, known as Schedelsche Weltchronik ( English: Schedel's World Chronicle ), published in 1493 in Nuremberg.

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

The combined population of Poland and GDL in 1493 is estimated as 7. 5 million, of whom 3. 25 million were Poles, 3. 75 million Ruthenians and 0. 5 million Lithuanians.

* 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.

Annexed is the former monastery of the Rrgular Canons of the Lateran, dating to 1493 – 1495.

It is estimated that, between 1493 and 1793, sejms were held 240 times, the total debate-time sum of which was 44 years.

Theophrastus Phillipus Auroleus Bombastus von Hohenheim ( 1493 – 1541 ) ( also referred to as Paracelsus, from his belief that his studies were above or beyond the work of Celsus-a Roman physician from the first century ) is also considered " the father " of toxicology.

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The date of European discovery is uncertain: some sources claim that Columbus sighted the island in 1493, while others state that the island was first discovered by the French in 1564 or 1565.

The European discovery and naming of Anguilla is often credited to French explorer Pierre Laudonnaire who visited the island in 1565, though according to some it had been sighted and named by Columbus in 1493.

* In the Piazza dei Signori is the beautiful loggia called the Gran Guardia, ( 1493 – 1526 ), and close by is the Palazzo del Capitaniato, the residence of the Venetian governors, with its great door, the work of Giovanni Maria Falconetto, the Veronese architect-sculptor who introduced Renaissance architecture to Padua and who completed the door in 1532.

There is a fine Gothic Protestant church, the Alexander-Kirche, founded in 1493.

The largest item from Italy is the Chancel Chapel from Santa Chiara Florence dated 1493 – 1500, designed by Giuliano da Sangallo it is 11. 1 metres in height by 5. 4 metres square, it includes a grand sculpted tabernacle by Antonio Rossellino and coloured terracotta decoration.

In 1493, the town is recorded by Hartmann Schedel in his Nuremberg Chronicle as Schwednitz

In the apse is a painting by Bernardino del Signoraccio ( 1493 ).

The old Norfolk family of Townshend, to which he belonged, is descended from Sir Roger Townshend ( d. 1493 ) of Raynham, who acted as legal advisor to the Paston family, and was made a justice of the common pleas in 1484.

The subject matter is Music, from the Quadrivium of Liberal arts, painted by Bernadino Pinturicchio in 1493.

" Art historian Rab Hatfield argues that one of Botticelli's paintings, The Mystical Nativity, is based on the sermon Savonarola delivered on Christmas Eve 1493.

It is unlikely that Canna ever formed part of the territories of the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles, which title became forfeit in 1493, as Monro reported of " Kannay " in 1549 that the island was a: " faire maine land, foure myle lange, inhabit and manurit, with paroche kirke in it, guid for corne, fishing and grassing, with a falcon nest in it, pertines to the Abbot of Colmkill ", although it " burned with fire " as part of the feud between Clanranald and Maclean of Duart in the late 16th century.

His reign is generally dated from 1506 to 1493 BC, but a minority of scholars, who feel that astrological observations used to calculate the timeline of ancient Egyptian records and thus the reign of Thutmose I, were taken from the city of Memphis rather than from Thebes, would date his reign from 1526 BC to 1513 BC.

In 1493, he was succeeded by his son Maximilian I after ten years of joint rule.

Colin Campbell ( c. 1433 – 1493 ) succeeded his grandfather as the 2nd Lord Campbell in 1453 and was created Earl of Argyll in 1457.

When word arrived in 1493 that his brother had succeeded, Bartholomew returned to Spain, where he missed Christopher, who had already left on the second voyage of his four to the " New World ".

The Earl died before 22 October 1493 when his son John succeeded him as the 2nd Earl of Morton.

Bust of Albertus Magnus by Vincenzo Onofri, c. 1493

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.

The Dance of Death ( 1493 ) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel.

The Enchiridion was first published in a Latin translation by Poliziano, Rome, 1493, and in 1496, by Beroaldus, at Bologna.

A rebellion by his nephew, Alexander of Lochalsh provoked an exasperated James IV to forfeit the family's lands in 1493.

1493 Woodcut of the City of Rhodes, by Hartmann Schedel

Incunabula include the Gutenberg Bible of 1455, the Peregrinatio in terram sanctam of 1486 — printed and illustrated by Erhard Reuwich — both from Mainz, the Nuremberg Chronicle written by Hartmann Schedel and printed by Anton Koberger in 1493, and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed by Aldus Manutius with important illustrations by an unknown artist.

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

It was charted by Columbus in 1493, but Spain had little interest in the territory.

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

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

The first successful settlement of São Tomé was established in 1493 by Álvaro Caminha, who received the land as a grant from the crown.

* 1493 – Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.

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.