First regular post service in Germany connects Mechelen and Innsbruck, Catholic missionaries arrive in the African Kingdom of Kongo, Chinese scholar and printer Hua Sui invents bronze-metal movable type printing in China, Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp, merchants carrying coffee from Yemen to Mecca present the earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking - and all these fine people were born:
1490-10xx Olaus Magnus* Archbishop of Uppsala - Skeninge, Sweden (1557/66) 1491-0628 Henry VIII of England* - Greenwich, Kent, England (1547/55) 1491-1023 Ignatius of Loyola* - Azpeitia, Basque, Spain (1556/64) 1491-1231 Jacques Cartier* explorer for France/the first European to map the river Saint Lawrence and its shores which he named “The Country of Canadas” after the Iroquoian names for the area - Saint-Malo, Duchy of Brittany (1557/65) 1492-xxx Jürgen Wullenwever* merchant/burgomaster of Lübeck - Hamburg, Germany (1537/c.45) 1492-0808 Matteo Tafuri* philosopher/ astrologer/alchemist - Soleto, Apulia, HRE (1582/89) 1493 Individual post 1494-1105 Hans Sachs* mastersinger /poet/playwright - Nuremberg, Germany (1576/81) 1495-0416 Petrus Apianus* astronomist/cartographer - Leisnig, Saxony (1552/57) 1495-0801 Jan van Scorel* painter - Schoorl, Holland (1562/67) In the year 1496, Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, after subjugating the Caribbean island and enslaving the indigenous people Taíno (Mar 10), Santo Domingo, capital of the future Dominican Republic on Hispaniola, is founded by Bartholomew Columbus, brother of Christopher, making it the oldest permanent European settlement in the New World (Aug 5), Dutchman Jan de Groote obtains a grant for the north ferry from the mainland of Scotland to Orkney - and all these fine people were born: 1496-xxxx Menno Simons* Roman Catholic priest/Anabaptist religious leader/leader of the Mennonites - Witmarsum, Friesland, Holy Roman Empire (1561/c.64) 1496-0318 Mary Tudor* Queen of France - Sheen Palace, London, Kingdom of England (1533/37) 1496-0512 Gustav Vasa* King of Sweden - Vallentuna, Sweden (1560/64) 1496-1123 Clément Marot* poet - Cahors, France (1544/47) 1497 Individual post In the year 1498, on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit the island of Trinidad (Jul 31), Leonardo da Vinci completes The Last Supper, on the refectory wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, on their way to Greenland, João Fernandes Lavrador and Pedro Barcelos discover the land they name Labrador. 1498-0630 Wilhelm von Brandenburg* Archbishop of Riga - Ansbach, Germany (1563) 1498-1115 Eleanor of Austria* Queen Consort of Portugal - Leuven, Austria (1558/59) 1499 Individual post Updated 8.1.2023-5 Search for another year here