Literature year 1493
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Events
World chronicles
- The Middle Low German chronicler and writer Hermann Bote began writing the Braunschweig World Chronicle .
- December 23 : Hartmann Schedel publishes the Nuremberg Chronicle in Nuremberg , later better known as Schedelsche Weltchronik . It follows the tradition of medieval chronicles by presenting the history of the world in “world ages”. The sixth world age: the birth of Christ to his presence is the most extensive in the chronicle. Most of the 1809 illustrations in the Schedelschen Weltchronik come from Michael Wolgemut's workshop , in which his son-in-law Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, among others, works .
- Images of cities from Schedel's world chronicle
Buda
Florence
Jerusalem
Lübeck
Paris
Prague
Rome
Salzburg
Vienna
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religion
- May 3 : In the Bull Inter caetera , Pope Alexander VI. present and future rulers of Castile and León, the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus .
- May 4 : In another bull Inter caetera , which replaces the bull Inter caetera from the previous day and the bull Eximiae devotionis , also dated May 3, the Pope demarcates the areas of Castile and Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean with a dividing line.
- September 26 : Pope Alexander VI. publishes the bull Dudum siquidem . The bull mainly summarizes the privileges previously granted to the Spanish and Portuguese royal houses.
Born
- November 11 : Bernardo Tasso , Italian poet († 1569 )
- Anna Bijns , Dutch writer († 1575 )
- Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus , Swiss doctor, alchemist, astrologer, mystic and philosopher († 1541 )
Died
- June 14 : Hermolaus Barbarus , Italian scholastic, poet and humanist (* 1454 )
See also
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