1493 in Spain

Events

• 16 January – Christopher Columbus leaves the New World and sets sail for Spain.
• 19 January – Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to Ferdinand of Aragon.
• 1 March – Martín Alonso Pinzón returns to the city of Bayona in Spain from the voyage of discovery, sending the first notice about the discovery to the Catholic Monarchs.
• 15 March – Christopher Columbus and Martín Alonso Pinzón return to Palos de la Frontera, the original port in Spain from where they started the first voyage of discovery.
• 4 May – In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI decrees that all lands discovered 100 leagues of the Azores are Spanish.
• 24 September – Christopher Columbus leaves Cádiz on his second voyage of exploration.

Births

• 9 December – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado, nobleman

Deaths

• Martín Alonso Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer