4th March » Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship 'Niña' from Voyages of Christopher Columbus First voyage known as his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
15th March » Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
4th May » Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
9th September » Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatia in the union with Hungary named Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
26th September » Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull 'Dudum siquidem' to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in 'Inter caetera'
3rd November » Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
18th November » Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
19th November » Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
Famous Birthdays in 1493
15th March » Anne de Montmorency, French captain and diplomat (d. 1567)
5th June » Justus Jonas, German religious reformer (d. 1555)
14th October » Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (d. 1568)
11th November » Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist (d. 1541)
11th November » Bernardo Tasso, Italian courtier and poet (d. 1569)
Famous Deaths in History for 1493
10th May » Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1433)
19th August » Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
9th September » Alexander Stewart (archbishop of St Andrews) or Alexander Stewart, Scottish archbishop (b. 1493)