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Part of
1490s
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1497
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1495
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1496
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Category:1496
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1496-01-01
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Category:1496 births
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Category:1496 deaths

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Encyclopedic overview

July 5: The Spanish Conquistador Alonso Fernández de Lugo conquers the Canary Islands as the last native kings of Tenerife surrender.

Year 1496 (MCDXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “1496” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.