February 13 » Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
April 28 » The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
May 10 » Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
August 8 » King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
November 1 » Pope Julius II is elected.
December 29 » The Battle of Garigliano (1503) was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.
February 12 » Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
April 7 » Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
June 26 » Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
August 29 » The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
September 30 » Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
December 10 » Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
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