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1495 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

    1495
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Events

February 22 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as Viceroy.

May 26 - A Spanish army under Gonzalo de Córdoba lands in Calabria with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples.

June 1 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.

June 28 - Battle of Seminara. Cordoba and Ferrante are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny.

July 6 - Battle of Fornovo - The French army under King Charles secures its retreat from Italy by defeating a combined Milanese-Venetian force under Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua.

December 25 - Second Battle of Acentejo - The Spanish crush native forces of the island of Tenerife, leading to the subjugation of this last bastion of resistance in the Canary Islands.

Russia invades Sweden through Karelia, but the Russian troops are beaten back at Vyborg.

University of Aberdeen founded by Bishop William Elphinstone

Births

March 6 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)

April 16 - Petrus Apianus, German humanist (died 1557)

November 21 - John Bale, English churchman (died 1563)

Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador (died 1541)

Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (died 1540)

Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (died 1570)

Costanzo Festa, Italian composer (died 1545)

John of God, Spanish friar and saint (died 1550)

Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer (died 1560)

Deaths

January 11 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (born 1428)

Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (born 1459)

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