In 1488 he was appointed Governor of the Netherlands ( until 1493 ) and marched with the imperial forces to free the Roman king Maximilian from his imprisonment at Bruges, and when, in 1489, the King returned to Germany, Albert was left as his representative to prosecute the war against the rebels.

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.

Lesser Poland, or Polonia Minor, appeared for the first time in historical documents in 1493, in the Statutes of Piotrków, during the reign of King Jan Olbracht, to distinguish this province from the cradle of the Polish state, Greater Poland ( Polonia Maior ).

Maximilian I ( 22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519 ), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans ( also known as King of the Germans ) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky.

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.

At the invitation of Duke Philip's father, King Maximilian I, he attended the funeral of Emperor Frederick III in 1493 and was recognised as King Richard IV of England.

The Portuguese King John II was not pleased with that arrangement, feeling that it gave him far too little land — it prevented him from possessing India, his near term goal ( as of 1493, Portuguese explorers had only reached the east coast of Africa ).

Encouraged by Ludovico Sforza of Milan, in 1493 King Charles VIII of France was preparing to invade Italy for the conquest of Naples and starting the Italian Wars, and Ferdinand realized that this was a greater danger than any he had yet faced.

Maximilian I of Habsburg, elected King of the Romans since 1493, after 1477 had to defend his claims to the heritage of his deceased wife Mary of Burgundy against intriguing Louis XI of France, while subsequent to the 1453 Fall of Constantinople the expansion of the Ottoman Empire on the Balkans proceeded.

His father, the King of Tír Eógan, was murdered in 1493 by his brother.

King John I Albert published his " Piotrków privilege " on May 26, 1493, which expanded the privileges of the szlachta at the expense of the bourgeoisie and the peasantry.

In 1493, King John II, accompanied by his wife Queen Leonor, made a pilgrimage to the site to fulfill a vow.

It was not until 1453 that the first mention was made of a two chamber legislative body in which the ' lords ' of the kingdom were represented in a ' council of lords ', however, by 1493 the Sejm, made up of the King, Senate and Chamber of Envoys was finally established as a permanent legislative body for the Polish kingdom.

He claimed the crown of the Kingdom of Naples and the County of Provence as the Duke of Calabria 1480 – 1493 and as King of Naples and Jerusalem 1493 – 1508.

The King of Portugal asserted that the discovery was within the bounds set forth in the papal bulls of 1452 ( Dum diversas ), 1455 ( Romanus Pontifex ), 1456 ( Inter caetera, not to be confused with the 1493 bull of the same name ), 1481 ( Aeterni regis ), and 1484.

A Romanian town in the Carpathian Mountains, Petrila is an ancient settlement, but its existence was not documented until 1493 in a donation letter between Vladislav the First, King of Hungary and a Romanian prince named Mihai Cande.

In 1493, King Charles VIII of France according to the Treaty of Senlis finally renounced Artois, which together with Flanders was incorporated into the Imperial Seventeen Provinces under the rule of Philip.

* Frederick ( 1424 – 1493 ), son of Ernest, King of the Romans from 1440 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1452, also Archduke of Austria from 1457

Maximilian however remained dissatified with the agreement and in 1493 forced King Charles VIII to sign the Treaty of Senlis, by which he re-acquired the County of Burgundy as well as the French counties of Charolais and Artois.

Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, King became a priest and was appointed Bishop of Exeter on 1 October 1492, consecrated on 3 February 1493.

He was knighted in 1493 by King Henry VII of England, for services in battle for the Tudor cause.

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 ).

It was attacked and occupied by Louis XI of France in 1463 ; a violent uprising against French rule in 1473 was harshly put down after a long siege, but in 1493 Charles VIII of France, wishing to conciliate Castile in order to free himself to invade Italy, restored it to Ferdinand II of Aragon.

After the regency ended, Maximilian and Charles VIII of France exchanged these two territories for Burgundy and Picardy in the Treaty of Senlis ( 1493 ).

The province, having been pledged as collateral to Louis for 300, 000 crowns, was occupied by French troops until 1493, when Charles VIII evacuated the region as part of a settlement with the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon, Isabel I and Ferdinand II.

He did have an illegitimate son by Joan Hill, who was alive in 1493, Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester ( later legitimized ), from whom descend the Earls and Marquesses of Worcester and later the Dukes of Beaufort, who are currently the last male line descendants of the Plantagenets and the Second House of the Counts of Anjou.

Louis XI seized it upon the death of Charles the Bold in 1477, but his son returned it to Charles's heirs in preparation for his invasion of Italy in 1493.

After the Hundred Years ' War ( 1337 – 1453 ) and the Treaty of Picquigny ( 1475 ) – its official end date – in 1492 and 1493, Charles VIII of France signed three additional treaties with Henry VII of England, Maximilian I of Habsburg, and Ferdinand II of Aragon respectively at Étaples ( 1492 ), Senlis ( 1493 ) and in Barcelona ( 1493 ).

The Franche-Comté initially also became French, but was ceded to Maximilian's son Philip in 1493 by the French king Charles VIII in the treaty of Senlis, in an attempt to bribe the Emperor to remain neutral during Charles's planned invasion of Italy.

* Catherine ( 1424 – 11 September 1493 ), married on 15 July 1447 to Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden

* Catherine ( 1420 – 1493 ), wife of Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden

Charles VIII promised to abolish the office in 1493, but the office is mentioned in the Ordinance of 1498.

Among the significant events organised by Burchard as Ceremoniere were: the visit of Don Federigo de Aragon to Rome ( December 1493 to January 1494 ); the coronation of Alfonso II of Naples ( May 1494 ); the reception of Charles VIII of France in Rome ( November 1494 to February 1495 ); the Papal Embassy to the Emperor Maximilian in Milan ( July – November 1496 ); the Proclamation of the Jubilee ( Christmas 1499 ); the visit of Alexander VI to Piombino ( January – March 1502 ); and obsequies of Pope Alexander VI ( August 1503 ).

* Baccio Bandinelli ( 1493 – 1560 ), conferred by Charles V

After the Hundred Years ' War, Charles VIII of France signed three additional treaties with Henry VII of England, Maximilian I of Habsburg, and Ferdinand II of Aragon respectively at Étaples ( 1492 ), Senlis ( 1493 ) and in Barcelona ( 1493 ).

Besides making naval reprisals Henry VII of England played the diplomatic game of fomenting the semi-independent Lord of the Isles and the Islesmen to throw off the sovereignty of Scotland, with such success that from 1493 – 1495 ( following the official forfeiture of the Lordship in 1493 ) and in 1498 James made at least four expeditions to the western seas to secure the doubtful allegiance of the Island chiefs and was largely successful-as a fluent Gaelic speaker, the last Scottish king to be so, James was able to deal with the Islanders in their own language.

He had formed an alliance with Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, but in 1493, when they went to war with France, England was dragged into the conflict.

France annexed the duchy, although the part of Burgundy that formed Franche-Comté was later given to Philip I of Castile in 1493.

Between 1493 and 1494 he bought a block of marble for a larger than life statue of Hercules, which was sent to France and subsequently disappeared sometime circa 18th century.

The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia, as in 1493 to defuse trade disputes, Pope Alexander VI split the discovered world in two between Spain and Portugal ; thus France, the Netherlands, and England were left without a sea route to Asia, either via Africa or South America, unless their ships defied the ban and explored such waters regardless ( they did, and the ban became unenforceable ).

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

* November 12 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France ( b. 1493 )

Margaret remained in France until 1493, when she was finally returned to her father.

In 1493, Maximilian contracted another marriage for himself, this time to the daughter of the Duke of Milan, whence ensued the lengthy Italian Wars with France.

In 1493, during the reign of Philip the Fair, the Austrians attacked France.

At seventeen, Claude made an alliance to the royal house of France by a marriage with Antoinette de Bourbon ( 1493 – 1583 ), daughter of François, Count of Vendôme.

In 1481 he was Prior of the city, and later became a favourite of Piero di Lorenzo de ' Medici, receiving from him, in 1493, the honour of being the Ambassador to the Kingdom of France.

** Occupied by France between 1477 and 1493 ( Treaty of Senlis )

In 1493 he matriculated in the University of Paris, France, then the foremost University in Europe.