May 4 » Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
July 12 » Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
September 9 » Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
September 26 » Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Spanish, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera.
November 18 » Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
November 19 » Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).
February 3 » The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
April 27 » Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
May 14 » Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Republic of Venice.
June 24 » Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
August 8 » Krishnadeva Raya is crowned Emperor of Vijayanagara at Chittoor.
September 10 » An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
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