Christopher Columbus named the island Santa María de Guadalupe in 1493 after the Virgin Mary, venerated in the Spanish town of Guadalupe, in Extremadura.

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

By 1493, the town roads were already cobbled.

On 30 May 2003, the Security Council by its Resolution 1493 authorized the deployment of interim emergency multinational force in Bunia with a task to secure the airport, protect internally displaced persons in camps and the civilians in the town.

Throughout the history the name of the town is mentioned in many documents under different names in different languages, therefore the old settlement " villa Kunentum " becomes in 1493 villa Kudzyr, in 1566 Kwczyr, in 1599-Kuchir, in 1656-Kuchjir, in 1673-Kucsir, in 1733-Kuser, in 1750-Kudsier, 1760-1762-Kudzser, in 1805 Kudsir and in 1850-Kusir.

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.

After studying at Tübingen he first became episcopal notary at Constance, then town clerk at Baden in Aargau in 1489, and at Freiburg in 1493.

It was first mentioned in a 1312 deed as an estate of the Benešovice noble family and received town privileges in 1493 by King Vladislaus II of Bohemia.

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

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 ).

After the 1493 Sejm in Piotrków, it became a regularly convening body, to which indirect elections were held every two years.

The concessions given in them were confirmed by bulls issued by Pope Callixtus III ( Inter Caetera quae in 1456 ), Sixtus IV ( Aeterni regis in 1481 ), and Leo X ( 1514 ), and they became the models for subsequent bulls issued by Pope Alexander VI: Eximiae devotionis ( 3 May 1493 ), Inter Caetera ( 4 May 1493 ) and Dudum Siquidem ( 23 September 1493 ), in which he conferred similar rights to Spain relating to the newly-discovered lands in the Americas.

As the plant was viewed as having a divine origin, its cultivation became subject to a state monopoly and its use restricted to nobles and a few favored classes ( court orators, couriers, favored public workers, and the army ) by the rule of the Topa Inca ( 1471 – 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.

He held land on the Welsh border, notably in Worcestershire where he became a magistrate ( JP ) in 1493.

The Type 3 was initially equipped with a 1. 5 L ( 1493 cc ) engine based on the air-cooled 1200cc flat-4 found in the Type 1, but given a 69mm stroke it became the basis for the 1300cc and 1600cc engines that followed in the later Beetle ( Type 1 ) and Volkswagen Type 2 T1 and T2.

Born in London, he entered Winchester School as a scholar in 1487, and proceeded in 1491 to New College, Oxford, where he became Fellow in 1493.

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.

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.

He became a cardinal in 1493.

He became Inca in his turn upon his father's death in 1471, ruling until his own death in 1493.

He became earl in 1493, upon his father's death.

On 1 October 1492 he became bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and was consecrated on 3 February 1493 by Archbishop Morton.

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.

After his father Frederick III died in 1493 he became the reigning emperor.

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

Louis was swift to re-engage, and forced Maximilian to agree to the Treaty of Arras ( 1482 ) by which Franche-Comté and Artois passed for a time to French rule, only to be regained by the Treaty of Senlis ( 1493 ), which established peace in the Low Countries.

The first Europeans to see and name the islands were the Spanish under Christopher Columbus who sighted the islands in 1493 during his second voyage.

A Spanish expedition under Christopher Columbus discovered and claimed the island for Spain in 1493.

Between 1493 and 1501, many Jews were expelled from their homes and sought sanctuary in the region of Avignon, which was still under the direct rule of the Pope.

He defeated another rebellion in 1489, took a direct interest in the administration of justice and finally brought the Lord of the Isles under control in 1493.

Sten Sture the Younger (), Lord of Ekesiö ( 1493 – 3 February 1520 ), was a Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden, under the era of the Kalmar Union.

Olof Persson ( sometimes Petersson ; born January 6, 1493 in Örebro, died April 19, 1552 in Stockholm ), better known under the Latin form of his name, Olaus Petri ( or less commonly, Olavus Petri ), was a clergyman, writer, and a major contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden.

* Countship of Friesland ( West Frisia ), since 1165 under Imperial administration, was from 1165 to 1493 a joint condominium of the Count of Holland and the Prince-bishop of Utrecht, then again until 25 October 1555 under Imperial administration

Francis composed a rule for the community in 1493, which was approved under the name of " Hermits of the Order of the Minims ".

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.

Individual uprisings – seeking relief from oppressive taxes, arbitrary justice systems, high debts, costly ecclesiastic privileges, serfdom, prohibitions on hunting and fishing, and the like – occurred in 1476 in Niklashausen ( Tauber valley ), 1493 in Sélestat / Alsace ( for the first time under the Bundschuh banner ), 1502 in Bruchsal and Untergrombach, 1513 in Lehen ( Breisgau ), and 1517 along the upper Rhine.

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.

The Krbava field and Udbina itself was the location of a medieval bishopric and the Battle of Krbava field of September 9, 1493, where the Croats under ban Emerik Derenčin ( Hungarian: Imre Derencsényi ) and the Frankopans suffered one of the major defeats at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.

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 Bull Inter caetera in 1493 led to the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, which divided the world into areas of Spanish and Portuguese rule.

( see also Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies ) Although Spain claimed the entire Caribbean, they settled only the larger islands of Hispaniola ( 1493 ), Puerto Rico ( 1508 ), Jamaica ( 1509 ), Cuba ( 1511 ), and Trinidad ( 1530 ), although the Spanish made an exception in the case of the small ' pearl islands ' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast because of their valuable pearl beds which were worked extensively between 1508 and1530.

In 1493, Columbus returned to the New World and claimed Spanish ownership of the island of Hispaniola ( contemporary Haiti and the Dominican Republic ) from the indigenous Taíno people.

Spanish explorers were the first Europeans with Christopher Columbus ' second expedition, which reached Puerto Rico on November 19, 1493 ; others reached Florida in 1513.

* James Lynch Fitzstephen from Galway, Ireland, who was the Mayor of Galway when he hanged his own son from the balcony of his house after convicting him of the murder of a Spanish visitor in 1493.

In 1493, Christopher Columbus sailing for the Spanish crown, was blown off course by gale force winds and fearing for the survival of his ship, spotted the rock of Sintra.

The claims of Spain on the Oregon Country dated to the papal bull of 1493 which had granted to Spain the rights to colonize the western coast of North America and to the actions of Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513, when he claimed all the " South Sea " ( the Pacific Ocean ) and the lands adjoining the Pacific Ocean for the Spanish Crown.

Christopher Columbus arrived to the island in November 1493, but the indelible mark of Spanish culture wasn't felt until Juan Ponce de León invaded the island in 1508 and established a colony near the current capital of San Juan.

Later, the 1481 Papal Bull Aeterni regis granted all lands south of the Canary Islands to the Portuguese Empire, while in May 1493 the Aragonese-born Pope Alexander VI decreed in the Bull Inter caetera that all lands west of a meridian only 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands should belong to the Spanish Empire while new lands discovered east of that line would belong to Portugal.

The first Catholic missionaries were Spanish, having come with Christopher Columbus to the New World on his second voyage in 1493.

Puerto Rico had been a Spanish colonial possession from 1493 to 1898, when it was taken by the US after the Spanish-American War.

Spain had claimed the entire Pacific coast of the Americas since the Inter caetera papal bull of 1493, reinforced in 1513 when Vasco Núñez de Balboa formally claimed all lands adjoining the Pacific Ocean for the Spanish Crown.

The Manila-Acapulco trade route in the Pacific, from 1568 and the Spanish treasure fleet | Atlantic route ( white ), from 1493, and its Portuguese rivals, the Portuguese India Armadas routes from 1498to 1640 ( blue )

1493 – Spanish settlers from Caparra found San Juan.

The Spanish were briefly given territorial rights to India by Pope Alexander VI on 25 September 1493 by the bull Dudum siquidem before these rights were removed by the Treaty of Tordesillas less than one year later.

For instance, Columbus brought indigenous Americans from his voyages in the New World to the Spanish court in 1493.

Spanish expeditions colonized and explored vast areas in North and South America following the grants of the Pope ( contained in the 1493 papal bull Inter caetera ) and rights contained in the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas and 1529 Treaty of Zaragoza.

Martín Alonso Pinzón, ( Palos de la Frontera, Huelva ; c. 1441 – c. 1493 ) was a Spanish mariner, shipbuilder, navigator and explorer, oldest of the Pinzón brothers.

Upon his return to Spain in the spring of 1493, Columbus wrote a letter to Luis de Santangel, one of his patrons at the Spanish court.