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.
March 27 » Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
April 30 » Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
June 6 » Battle of Novara. In the Italian Wars, Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, forcing them to abandon Milan; Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
September 9 » James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
September 25 » Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
October 7 » War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice.
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