Calendar year
January 31 : Treaty of Lyon signed
Year 1504 (MDIV ) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
September 8 : Michelangelo 's David is completed.
July 2 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes the new Prince of Moldavia upon the death of his father Stephen the Great .[ 13]
July 3 – The siege of Cochin in India by the invading forces of Calicut ends as the Portuguese and Cochin defenders defeat the invaders. Calicut loses 5,000 dead in battle and another 13,000 to disease, while Cochin and Portugal sustain minimal losses.
July 7 – At the age of 16, Lê Túc Tông becomes the new Emperor of Vietnam (Dai Viet) after the death of his father, Lê Hiến Tông , but serves for only six months before dying.[ 10]
July 20 – Pope Julius II issues an order reforming the official coinage of the Papal States, raising the silver content of the carlino coin to four grams.[ 14] In that the Pope was formerly Giuliano della Rovere, the new coin is called the giulio in his honor and features the coat of arms of the della Rovere family.
August 19 – The Battle of Knockdoe is fought in Ireland's County Galway [ 15] as 6,000 troops led by the English Lord Deputy of Ireland , Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare assist Maelsechlainn mac Tadhg Ó Cellaigh , King of Uí Mháine , against 4,000 troops of Irish chieftain Ulick Fionn Burke , Lord of the Clanricarde lands. Burke had previously attacked and destroyed Ó Cellaigh's castles at Monivea , Castleblakeney and Garbally and sought Kildare's help. Kildare's forces win the battle.
September 8 – Michelangelo 's sculpture of David is unveiled in Florence .[ 16] [ 17]
September 13 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of Capilla Real , a Royal Chapel, to be built in Granada.[ 18]
September 22 – Treaty of Blois : Philip I of Castile , Maximilian I and Louis XII agree to terms.[ 19]
October – Babur besieges and captures Kabul .[ 26]
Islamization of the Sudan region : A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas , founds the Sultanate of Sennar .[ 27]
Sheikh Ahmed , the final leader of the Great Horde , is last heard of as a Lithuanian prisoner at Vilnius until 1527 when he was released, after which he came to rule over the Astrakhan Khanate .[ 28]
In Florence , Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli become involved in a scheme to divert the Arno River, cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, fails to follow da Vinci's design, and the project is a major failure.[ 29]
The Council of Ten discusses the advisability of proposing a scheme of a Suez Canal to the Sultan of Egypt, at the time Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri , but the discussion is eventually abandoned.[ 30]
Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice .[ 31]
The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio .
Raphael paints The Marriage of the Virgin , which exemplifies some major principles of High Renaissance art.[ 32] [ 33]
Anna II, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia
Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy
January 1 – Caspar Creuziger , German humanist (d. 1548 )[ 34]
January 17 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572 )[ 35]
January 28 – Anna II, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg , German noblewoman, reigning from 1516 until her death (d. 1574 )[ 36]
February 3 – Scipione Rebiba , Italian cardinal (d. 1577 )[ 37]
March 31 – Guru Angad , Indian religious leader (d. 1552 )[ 38]
April 12 – Alessandro Campeggio , Italian cardinal (d. 1554 )[ 39]
April 30 – Francesco Primaticcio , Italian painter (d. 1570 )[ 40]
May 5 – Stanislaus Hosius , Polish cardinal (d. 1579 )[ 41]
May 29 – Antun Vrančić , Croatian archbishop (d. 1573 )[ 42]
June 24 – Johannes Mathesius , German theologian (d. 1565 )[ 43]
July 18 – Heinrich Bullinger , Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575 )[ 44]
August 1 – Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia , Danish princess (d. 1547 )[ 45]
August 6 – Matthew Parker , English Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574 )[ 46]
September 4 – John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst , Prince of Anahlt-Dessau (1516–1544) and Anhalt-Zerbst (1544–1551) (d. 1551 )[ 47]
September 20 – Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1559 )[ 48]
October 29 – Shin Saimdang , Korean calligraphist and noted poet (d. 1551 )
November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi , Italian novelist and poet (d. 1573 )
November 13 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1567 )[ 49]
December – Nicholas Udall , English playwright and schoolmaster (d. 1556 )[ 50]
December 31 – Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1538 )[ 51]
date unknown
Isabella I of Castile
January 9 – Gaspare Nadi , Italian builder (b. 1418 )[ 55]
January 27 – Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo (b. 1438 )[ 56]
February 17 – Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1447 )[ 57]
April 15 – Filippino Lippi , Italian painter (b. 1457 )[ 58]
May 31 – Engelbert II of Nassau (b. 1451 )[ 59]
June – Lê Hiến Tông , Emperor of the Lê Dynasty[ 10]
June 19 – Bernhard Walther , German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430 )[ 60]
July 2 – Stephen the Great , Prince of Moldova (b. 1434 )[ 61]
July 29 – Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435 )[ 62]
August 15 or August 18 – Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara , Italian astronomer (b. 1454 )[ 63]
August 20 – Ruprecht of the Palatinate (Bishop of Freising) (b. 1481 )[ 64]
August 22 – Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1489–1503) (b. 1462 )[ 65]
August 28 – John Paston , English gentleman known from the Paston Letters (b. 1444 )[ 66]
September 10 – Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480 )[ 67]
September 15 – Elisabeth of Bavaria (b. 1478 )[ 68]
September 22 – Jan II the Mad , Duke of Żagań (1439–1449 and 1461–1468 and again in 1472) (b. 1435 )[ 69]
September 24 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), Italian astrologer (b. 1467 )[ 70]
October 12 – John Corvinus , Hungarian noble (b. 1473 )[ 71]
November 9 – King Frederick IV of Naples (b. 1452 )
November 26 – Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451 )[ 23]
December – Lê Túc Tông , Emperor of the Lê Dynasty[ 10]
December 21 – Berthold von Henneberg , German archbishop and elector (b. 1442 )[ 72]
date unknown
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