|
1504| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. | | 1504 | Italy [art] | Italian artist Michelangelo (Buonarroti) completes his sculpture David, which is widely praised when set up in a square in Florence. He also paints his Holy Family (Doni Tondo). | | 1504 | Italy [painting] | The Italian artist Raphael (Sanzio) paints Marriage of the Virgin. | | April - October 1504 | Holy Roman Empire, Bavaria, Palatinate, Germany [crime and punishment] | The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I pronounces the Imperial Ban on Rupert, son of the Elector Palatine, claimant through his wife to the duchy of Bavaria-Landshut. Though the late Duke George of Bavaria-Landshut approved this claim in his will and Rupert has already seized the duchy, Maximilian supports the claim through imperial law of dukes Albert and Wolfgang of Bavaria-Munich. The Landshut War begins. | | 22 September 1504 | France, Holy Roman Empire [treaties] | King Louis XII of France, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and his son Philip (‘the Handsome’), Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, sign the Treaty of Blois. Louis's daughter Claude is to marry Philip's son Charles (the future emperor Charles V); if Louis dies without a son, Charles and Claude are to succeed to Milan, Blois, and Brittany. By a secret treaty Louis is allowed to retain Milan for 100,000 ducats, and agrees a joint attack on Naples with Maximilian. | | 26 November 1504 | Spain [births and deaths] | Isabella I the Catholic, queen of Castile 1474–1504 and Aragon 1479–1504, who ruled the two kingdoms jointly with her husband, Ferdinand from 1479, dies in Medina del Campo, Spain (53). |
How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
?Sign in  |
|---|
|
|
|