Castile, on his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, intending to reach Asia. August 11 – Pope Alexander VI succeeds Pope Innocent VIII as the 214th pope, after the 1492 papal conclave, the first held in the Sistine Chapel. September 6 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. October 3 – English army besieges Boulogne. October 12 – Christopher Columbus' expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani, but he believes he has reached the East Indies. October 28 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba. November 3 – The Peace of Étaples is signed between England and France, ending French support for Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the English throne. All English-held territory in France (with the exception of Calais) is returned to France. November 7 – The Ensisheim meteorite, a meteorite, lands in a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace. December 5 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola. December 25 – Columbus' ship Santa María runs aground off Cap-Haïtien, and is lost. Unknown dates Martin Behaim constructs the first surviving globe of Earth, the Erdapfel. As Columbus would only return from his voyage in 1493, this globe does not show the New World yet. The first arboretum to be designed and planted is the Arboretum Trsteno, near Dubrovnik in Croatia. Russians build the Ivangorod Fortress, on the eastern banks of the Narva River. In Ming dynasty China, the commercial transportation of grain to the northern border, in exchange for salt certificates, is monetized. Ermysted's Grammar School, Skipton, North Yorkshire, is founded. Marsilio Ficino publishes his translation and commentary of Plotinus. Stiegl brewery first recorded in Salzburg. Births January 22 – Beatrix of Baden, Margravine of Baden, Countess Palatine consort of Simmern (d. 1535) March 4 – Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540) March 21 – John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, Count Palatine of Simmern (1509-1557) (d. 1557) March 27 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (d. 1559) April 4 – Ambrosius Blarer, influential reformer in southern Germany and north-eastern Switzerland (d. 1564) April 6 – Maud Green, English noble (d. 1531) April 11 – Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549) April 20 – Pietro Aretino, Italian author (d. 1556) April