In the year 1504, Svante Nilsson is elected Regent of Sweden (Jan 21), Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse this night, to convince the indigenous Jamaican people to provide him with supplies (Feb 29), Michelangelo’s sculpture of David is erected in Florence (Sep 8), Isabella of Castille dies, ending her patronage for Columbus (Nov 26), Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal, 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 – and all these fine people were born:
1504-0101 Caspar Creuziger* German Renaissance humanist/Protestant reformer - Leipzig (1548/44)
1504-0128 Anna II* Abbess of Quedlinburg* - Stolberg, Saxony-Anhalt (1574/70)
1504-0203 Scipione Rebiba* prelate of the Catholic Church - San Marco d’Alunzio, Sicily (1577/73)
1504-0331 Guru Angad* Indian religious leader - Matte Di Sarai, Delhi Sultanate (1552/47)
1504-0412 Alessandro Campeggio* Roman Catholic bishop/cardinal - Bologna, Papal States (1554/50)
1504-0430 Francesco Primaticcio* painter/ sculptor/architect - Bologna, Papal States (1570/c.66)
1504-0529 Antun Vrančić* Croatian prelate/ diplomat/Archbishop of Esztergom - Sebenico, Dalmatia, Republic of Venice (1573/69)
1504-0624 Johannes Mathesius* German minister/Lutheran reformer/known for his compilation of Martin Luther‘s Table Talk - Rochlitz (1565/61)
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1504-0718 Heinrich Bullinger* Swiss reformer - Bremgarten, Aargau, Old Swiss Confederacy (1575/71)
1504-0801 Dorothea of Denmark* Duchess of Prussia/daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark (1547/42)
1504-0806 Matthew Parker* Archbishop of Canterbury – Norwich, England (1575/70)
1504-0904 John V* Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst - Dessau (1551/46)
1504-1029 Shin Saimdang* 신사임당 Korean artist/ writer/calligraphist - Ojukheon, Kingdom of Joseon (1551/46)
1504-1112 Giovanni Battista Giraldi* – Ferrara, Italy (1573/69)
1504-12xx Nicholas Udall* playwright/ schoolmaster/author of Ralph Roister Doister (regarded as the first comedy written in the English language) - Hampshire, England (1556/c.52)
1504-1231 Beatrice of Portugal* Duchess of Savoy - Lisbon, Portugal (1538/33)
Updated 26.5.2022
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