Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1498 1499 1500 – 1501 – 1502 1503 1504

1501 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1501 (MDI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1501 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1501

[edit] January–June

• January 17 – Cesare Borgia returns triumphantly to Rome from Romagna.
• April 23 – The Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral and 6 ships return to Lisbon.
• May 20 – Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Island.
• Amerigo Vespucci maps the two stars Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, as well as the stars of the constellation Crux, which were below the horizon in Europe.

[edit] July–December

• July 15 – Explorer Pedro Cabral arrives in Lisbon.
• July 27 – Copernicus is formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.
• August 26 – The Canton of Basel is partitioned in twain by the Swiss Tagsatzung, to create the two half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country.
• October 13 – Treaty of Trente: Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII sign the treaty, with Austria recognizing all French conquests in the northern territories of Italy.
• October 30 – The Banquet of Chestnuts is held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace of Rome.
• November 1 – Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names All Saints' Bay.
• November 4 – Philip de Blank and Juana "la Loca" leave for Spain.
• November 14 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries the Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon.

[edit] Undated

• Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David.
• Czar Ivan III of Russia invades Lithuania.
• Alexander Jagiellon becomes King of Poland.
• Ismail I conqueres Tabriz. He declares Shi'ism the official and compulsory religion under penalty of death.
• The Safavid kingdom is established in northern Iran.
• Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt.
• Gaspar de Corte-Real, Portuguese navigator, makes the first documented European landing in North America since c. 1000 A.D.
• The famous Florentine political theorist, statesman, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who bears him six children.

[edit] Births

1501 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1501 MDI
Ab urbe condita	2254
Armenian calendar	950 ԹՎ ՋԾ
Bahá'í calendar	-343 – -342
Berber calendar	2451
Buddhist calendar	2045
Burmese calendar	863
Byzantine calendar	7009 – 7010
Chinese calendar	庚申年十二月十二日 (4137/4197-12-12) — to — 辛酉年十一月廿二日 (4138/4198-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1217 – 1218
Ethiopian calendar	1493 – 1494
Hebrew calendar	5261 – 5262
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1556 – 1557
- Shaka Samvat	1423 – 1424
- Kali Yuga	4602 – 4603
Holocene calendar	11501
Iranian calendar	879 – 880
Islamic calendar	906 – 907
Japanese calendar	Meiō 10Bunki 1 (文亀元年)
Korean calendar	3834
Thai solar calendar	2044
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• January 16 – Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
• January 17 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
• May 6 – Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
• July 18 – Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526)
• September 24 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (d. 1576)
• April 16 – Shaun Drennan, Irish plantation warrior, God among men
• Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
• date unknown
  • Girolamo da Carpi, Italian painter (d. 1556)
  • Dawit II of Ethiopia (d. 1540)
  • Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese nobleman (d. 1573)
• probable
  • Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (approximate date; d. 1578)
  • Garcia de Orta, Portuguese physician (d. 1568)
  • Hilaire Penet, French composer
  • Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII (d. 1536)

[edit] Deaths

• January 3 – Alisher Navoi, Central Asian poet (b. 1441)
• February 1 – Sigismund of Bavaria (b. 1439)
• May 7 – Giovanni Battista Zeno, cardinal
• September 20
  • Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of Venice
  • Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (b. 1457)
• date unknown
  • Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer (b. 1450)
  • John I Albert of Poland (b. 1459)
  • John Doget, English diplomat
  • Constantine Lascaris, Greek scholar and grammarian