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Year 1496 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Events. January–December. February – Pietro Bembo's Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum ...
Expulsion of the Jews in 1497, in a 1917 watercolour by Alfredo Roque Gameiro. On 5 December 1496, King Manuel I of Portugal decreed that all Jews must convert to Catholicism or leave the country, in order to satisfy a request by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain during the negotiations of the contract of marriage between himself and their eldest daughter Isabella, Princess of Asturias, as an ...
1496. January 1 – Charles, Count of Angoulême (b. 1459) February 24 – Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1445) March 4 – Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (b. 1427)
1496. 24 February – Henry VII signs the commercial treaty Intercursus Magnus with Venice, Florence and the villes of the Hanse and Pays-Bas. [2] 5 March – King Henry VII issues letters patent to Italian-born adventurer John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to discover unknown lands. [3] 12 June – Jesus College, Cambridge, founded. [2]
The notion of a sovereign state arises in the 16th century with the development of modern diplomacy.For earlier times, the term "sovereign state" is an anachronism. What corresponded to sovereign states in the medieval and ancient period were monarchs ruling By the Grace of God, de facto feudal or imperial autocrats, or de facto independent nations or tribal confederations.
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (July 1496 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England's reign, from 1547 until January 1552. He was the founder of Felsted School with its associated almshouses in Essex in 1564.
1496 – Santo Domingo, the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, is settled. 1497 – John Cabot lands in Newfoundland , beginning the British colonial presence in Continental North America.
Date Event Significance to the Reformation in England 1496 Catherine of Aragon's hand secured for Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VII: Brought Catherine of Aragon to England and kept her in the consciousness of the Tudor dynasty.