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World

Population: 466 Million*

Entertainment: Writers includeLodovico Ariosto Cassaria, Gercia Rodriguez de Montalvo, Guillaume Bude (interpretations of Roman law)
Art includes Lorenzo Lotto "Sacra conversazione", Michelangelo (Sistine Chapel ceiling), Raphael enters service of Pope Julius II
Deaths: Lodovico Sforza (Il Moro) of Milan, Writer Conradus Celtis, Jewish philosopher Isaac Abrabanel

General: Yellow Fever on Hispaniola decimates natives to 1514, Gale destroyes vessels in Santo Domingo
Canada: Sebastian Cabot reaches Hudson Bay
Puerto Rico: Juan Ponce de Leon explores Puerto Rico for Spain

General: League of Cambrai formed by Margaret of Austria – HRE Maximilian I Louis of France and Ferdinand of Spain ally against Venice
France: Girolamo Aleandro begins teaching Greek at U of Paris
German States: Luther becomes student at U of Wittenberg
Holy Roman Empire: Maximilian I assumes title of emperor without being crowned – Pope Julius II confirms German King now automatically becomes HRE
Jakob Fugger the Augsburg merchant made hereditary knight of the HRE
Italian States: Lodovico Sforza (Il Moro) of Milan dies
Baldassare Peruzzi begins to build in Rome
Louis XII of France re-invades Italy
Scotland: First book printed in Scotland