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Events
 March 15 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
 July 28 – Great fire in Moscow.
 September 9 – Battle of Krbava field between defending Croatian nobles and invading Ottoman Turk forces.
 November 19 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he saw for the first time only the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
 December 23 – Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.