* 1504 – Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector ( b. 1442 )

* 1504 — While shipwrecked on the island of Jamaica, Christopher Columbus successfully predicted a lunar eclipse for the natives, using the Ephemeris of the German astronomer Regiomontanus.

He served the German king, Maximilian I, in the war over the succession to the duchy of Bavaria-Landshut in 1504, receiving some additions to Württemberg as a reward ; he accompanied Maximilian on his unfinished journey to Rome in 1508 ; and he marched with the imperial army into France in 1513.

* Wibrandis Rosenblatt ( 1504 – 1564 ), German Christian active in the Protestant Reformation

They agreed to partition the Neapolitan realm in the Treaty of Granada ( 1500 ), but were eventually at war over the terms of partition, and by the year 1504 France had lost its share of Naples.

While technically referring to the era before Christopher Columbus ' voyages of 1492 to 1504, in practice the term usually includes the history of American indigenous cultures until they were conquered or significantly influenced by Europeans, even if this happened decades or even centuries after Columbus ' initial landing.

While technically referring to the era before Christopher Columbus ' voyages of 1492 to 1504, in practice the term usually includes the history of American indigenous cultures until they were conquered or significantly influenced by Europeans, even if this happened decades or even centuries after Columbus ' initial landing.

But the term proof can be used in the case of a clear working proof of an old master print, like the two impressions of Albrecht Dürer's Adam and Eve ( 1504, British Museum and Albertina, Vienna ) which show the figures largely finished but the background with only the main outlines lightly done.

For Spain, dates commonly used are the death of King Ferdinand II in 1516, the death of Queen Isabella I of Castile in 1504, or the conquest of Granada in 1492.

The Spencers were granted a coat of arms in 1504 which bears no resemblance to that used by the family after c. 1595, which was derived from the Despencer arms.

In 1504 the castle was reconstructed, but it was only used till the middle of the 16th century, when it was finally abandoned.

According to the Churchwarden's Accounts for Great St. Mary's Church of Cambridge ( 1504 – 1635 ), a church stool was sometimes known in the south-east by the Dutch name of " kreckett ", this being the same word used for the game by John Derrick in 1597.

Stephen the Great ruled between 1457 and 1504, a period of nearly 50 years during which he won 32 battles defending his country against virtually all his neighbours ( mainly the Ottomans and the Tatars, but also the Hungarians and the Poles ), while losing only two.

The Second Helvetic Confession ( Latin: Confessio Helvetica posterior, or CHP ) was mainly written by Heinrich Bullinger ( 1504 – 1575 ), pastor and the successor of Huldrych Zwingli in Zurich Switzerland.

He renounced painting for several years, not resuming until 1504 when he became the head of the monastery workshop in obedience to his superior.

Ewuare's grandson Oba Esigie ( 1504 – 1550 ) eroded the power of the uzama ( state council ) and increase contact and trade with Europeans, especially with the Portuguese who provided a new source of copper for court art.

An album he had bound in 1504, which once contained five engravings by Jacopo de ' Barberi, provides important evidence for dating de ' Barbari's work.

Though there were craftsmen in several cities ( such as Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghent ), the major handicraft center for this cordwain was Mechelen, where it was mentioned as early as 1504.

William Grocyn pursued Valla's lines of text criticism, and Valla's critical viewpoint of the authorship of the highly influential Corpus was accepted and publicized by Erasmus from 1504 onward, for which he was criticized by Catholic theologians.

* 1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel ( Capilla Real ) to be built.

* Isabella I of Castile, co-ruler of Spain with Ferdinand II of Aragon and responsible for the unification of Spain and the discovery of the New World ( 1451 – 1504 ).

* Stephen III of Moldavia, also known as Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia, national hero of Romanians for long resistance to the Ottomans ( 1437 – 1504 )

* February 28 – Ch ' oe Pu ( 1454 – 1504 ), the Korean Commissioner of Registers for the island of Cheju, shipwrecks on the southeast coast of China in Taizhou, Zhejiang, during the Ming Dynasty.

His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years ( from 1504 – 1508 ) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.

In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the " Mond Crucifixion " ( about 1503 ) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin ( 1504 ), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece.

Even the shipwrecked Korean Choe Bu ( 1454 – 1504 )— while traveling for five months throughout China in 1488 — acknowledged that Hangzhou served not as a competitor but as an economic feeder into the greater Suzhou market.

It is known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Isleworth_Mona_Lisa, and has for years been the subject of much debate because it has many qualities that fit the history of the Mona Lisa, which the Louvre version does not possess, including the columns depicted in Raphael's 1504 sketch of the Mona Lisa, done in Leonardo's studio while visiting there, and showing a younger woman ( in her 20s ) which better suits the age Lisa Gherardini http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Lisa_Gherardini would have been in 1504.

In 1504 he was elected the university's chancellor and was re-elected annually for 10 years and then appointed for life.

When her husband died in 1504, Margaret Pole was a widow with five children, a limited amount of land inherited from her husband, no salary and no prospects ; Henry VII paid for Sir Richard's funeral.

In the Italian War of 1499 – 1504, he successfully secured Milan itself in the year 1499 from his enemy, Ludovico Sforza, and it remained a French stronghold for twelve years.

His fiscal reforms of 1504 and 1508 tightened and improved procedures for the collection of taxes.

“ In his will of 28 July 1504 he ordained masses for the souls of himself, his wives, parents, ancestors, children, siblings, and, ever the good lord, ‘ them that have died in the service of my lord my father or of me ’”.

The records of Wittenberg confirm Gunderam's statement to this extent that Cranach's name appears for the first time in the public accounts on the 24 June 1504, when he drew 50 gulden for the salary of half a year, as pictor ducalis (" the duke's painter ").

In 1504 he created " Newhavin " ( meaning literally " new harbour ") as a custom-built port, specifically for the construction of the warship Michael ( popularly called the " Great Michael ").

Although the Cantino planisphere ( 1504 ) and the Ruysch map ( 1507 ) clearly delineate the Maldive Islands, giving them the same names, they do not show any islands to the south which can be identified as the Chagos archipelago.

In 1504, finding it impossible to succeed with the Doge of Venice by remonstrance, he brought about a union of the conflicting interests of France and the Holy Roman Empire, and sacrificed temporarily to some extent the independence of Italy to conclude with them an offensive and defensive alliance against Venice.

Venetian renaissance artist Gentile Bellini depicts them in the painting " St. Mark preaching in Alexandria " ( 1504 – 1507 ).

But when he realises that the Emperor is not up to the task, he writes to his fellow humanist Konrad Peutinger in Augsburg in 1504 that the role of Emperor could equally well be carried out by another people if the Germans were incapable of fulfilling the role that history had given them.

The Brethren spared no pains to obtain good masters, if necessary from foreign countries, for their schools, which became centres of spiritual and intellectual life of the Catholic Church ; amongst those whom they trained or who were associated with them were men like Thomas à Kempis, Dierick Maertens, Gabriel Biel, Jan Standonck ( 1454 – 1504 ), priest and reformer, Master of the Collège de Montaigu in Paris, and the Dutch Pope Adrian VI.

Bishops Richard Mayew and Booth, who between them ruled the diocese from 1504 to 1535, made the last additions to the cathedral by erecting the north porch, now forming the principal northern entrance.

Observations of Mercury by Bernhard Walther ( 1430 – 1504 ) of Nuremberg, a pupil of Regiomontanus, were made available to Copernicus by Johannes Schöner, 45 observations in total, 14 of them with longitude and latitude.

In the year 1520, Zurich decided to reconstruct the ruins as residence of Zürich's Landvögte among them Heinrich Biberli ( 1403 ), Gerold Edlibach ( 1504 ) and Salomon Landolt ( 1776 ).