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Category:1940s action films1494 in science
The year 1494 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
Astronomy
Neptune begins to take a northern orbit.
Exploration
January – Vasco da Gama discovers the Cape of Good Hope.
May – Portuguese naval expedition establishes a trading post on the island of Mbamba Bay in modern Tanzania.
May 4 – Bartolomeu Dias and António de Saldanha discover Brazil, opening a sea route to India and Asia, greatly increasing Portuguese trade with those regions.
November – Christopher Columbus sails from Lisbon to the Canary Islands, the first Europeans to do so.
August – Polish prince Konrad I Vasa discovers Saint Helena and the second group of the so-called Amsterdam Island.
Metallurgy
Ludolf Körting invents a kiln.
Births
September 17 – Robert Fludd, English mathematician and occultist (died 1597)
October 8 – Thomas Standish, English mathematician (died 1557)
December 1 – Anthony Lee, English mathematician and physicist (died 1593)
probable – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (born 1452)
Deaths
January 23 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician, astronomer and canon (born 1473)
July 29 – Pet
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