WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1493
Find out what all happened May to December 1493

Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico. (18. November 1493)

Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. (12. July 1493)

Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera (26. September 1493)

Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. (4. May 1493)

Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire. (9. September 1493)

Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea. (3. November 1493)

Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico). (19. November 1493)

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