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.
April 19 » Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
April 22 » Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780mi)) east of the Moluccas.
July 26 » Francisco Pizarro González, Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.
September 1 » The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
September 27 » The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
October 15 » The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
March 14 » Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
May 17 » Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
August 30 » Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
September 5 » Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
September 27 » Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
October 16 » Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
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