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.
January 23 » James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
May 20 » Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
September 10 » Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
November 1 » The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
January 23 » James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
May 20 » Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
September 10 » Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
November 1 » The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
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