1495

1495 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

* February 22 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as Viceroy.
* May 26 - A Spanish army under Gonzalo de Córdoba lands in Calabria with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples.
* June 1 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
* June 28 - Battle of Seminara. Cordoba and Ferrante are defeated by a French army under Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny.
* July 6 - Battle of Fornovo - The French army under King Charles secures its retreat from Italy by defeating a combined Milanese-Venetian force under Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua.
* December 25 - Second Battle of Acentejo - The Spanish crush native forces of the island of Tenerife, leading to the subjugation of this last bastion of resistance in the Canary Islands.
*Russia invades Sweden through Karelia, but the Russian troops are beaten back at Vyborg.
*Founding of the Reichskammergericht of the Holy Roman Empire.
*Henry VII of England commissions world's first dry dock at Portsmouth
* University of Aberdeen founded by Bishop William Elphinstone

*March 6 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman (d. 1556)
*April 16 - Petrus Apianus, German humanist (died 1557)
*November 21 - John Bale, English churchman (died 1563)
*December 5 - Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
*Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador
*Robert Barnes, English reformer and martyr (died 1540)
*Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (died 1570)
*Costanzo Festa, Italian composer
*John of God, Spanish friar and saint (died 1550)
*Nicolas Gombert, Flemish composer
*Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (died 1568)