1504
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| Gregorian calendar | 1504 MDIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2257 |
| Armenian calendar | 953 ԹՎ ՋԾԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6254 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1425–1426 |
| Bengali calendar | 911 |
| Berber calendar | 2454 |
| English Regnal year | 19 Hen. 7 – 20 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2048 |
| Burmese calendar | 866 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7012–7013 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4200 or 4140 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4201 or 4141 |
| Coptic calendar | 1220–1221 |
| Discordian calendar | 2670 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1496–1497 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5264–5265 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1560–1561 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1425–1426 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4604–4605 |
| Holocene calendar | 11504 |
| Igbo calendar | 504–505 |
| Iranian calendar | 882–883 |
| Islamic calendar | 909–910 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunki 4 / Eishō 1 (永正元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1421–1422 |
| Julian calendar | 1504 MDIV |
| Korean calendar | 3837 |
| Minguo calendar | 408 before ROC 民前408年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 36 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2046–2047 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 1630 or 1249 or 477 — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) 1631 or 1250 or 478 |
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1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- January 1 – French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
- January 31 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
- February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
- Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti) finishes his sculpture of David – August 8 it is erected in Florence.
- Moldavia, Stephan III the Great fights against Turkey and Poland.
- Baber besieges and captures Kabul.
- Ferdinand II of Aragon becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III.
- Christopher Columbus return to Spain from his fourth voyage where he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.
- Aldo Manuzio publishes Demosthenes.
- Grünenwald: "Crucifixion".
- Voyage of Juan de la Cosa to South America.
- A Funj leader, Amara Dunqas, founds the Black Sultanate (As Saltana az Zarqa) at Sennar. (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah))
Births
- Roxelana, Polish wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (d.1558)
- August 6 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1574)
- Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer
Deaths
- November 9 – King Frederick IV of Naples
- November 26 – Queen Isabella of Castile (born 1451)
- Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Italian astronomer