May 18 » Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
May 19 » Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
July 10 » The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
August 12 » First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
November 5 » Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
December 18 » A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
February 17 » Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.
March 29 » Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
April 10 » Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
April 22 » Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
August 9 » Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia.
December 24 » A joint Venetian–Spanish fleet captures the Castle of St. George on the island of Cephalonia.
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