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Events in 1494 2
1494 – 1553Francois RabelaisFrench writer and satiristRabelais used humor and satire in Gargantua and Pantagruel to critique society and human nature.
1494Treaty of TordesillasDividing the New WorldAn agreement between Portugal and Spain to divide newly discovered lands outside Europe along a meridian.