Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1503 1504 1505 – 1506 – 1507 1508 1509

1506 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 1506 (MDVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1506 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1506

[edit] January–June

• January 22 – The Swiss Guard arrives at the Vatican, to serve as permanent ceremonial and palace guards under Pope Julius II.
• April 18 – Pope Julius II lays the foundation stone of the new (current) St. Peter's Basilica, replacing the Old Saint Peter's Basilica.

[edit] July–December

• August 19 – Sigismund I the Old succeeds his brother as King of Poland.

[edit] Undated

• The Portuguese mariner Tristão da Cunha sights the islands of Tristan da Cunha, naming the larger one with his own name.
• In Ming Dynasty China, the local costs of the courier system are met by a tax in silver assessed by the property of land instead of by corvée labor service.
• Pope Julius II personally leads papal troops against the French invaders of Italy.
• Duarte Barbosa returns to Lisbon.

[edit] Births

1506 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1506 MDVI
Ab urbe condita	2259
Armenian calendar	955 ԹՎ ՋԾԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-338 – -337
Bengali calendar	913
Berber calendar	2456
Buddhist calendar	2050
Burmese calendar	868
Byzantine calendar	7014 – 7015
Chinese calendar	乙丑年十二月初八日 (4142/4202-12-8) — to — 丙寅年十二月十八日 (4143/4203-12-18)
Coptic calendar	1222 – 1223
Ethiopian calendar	1498 – 1499
Hebrew calendar	5266 – 5267
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1561 – 1562
- Shaka Samvat	1428 – 1429
- Kali Yuga	4607 – 4608
Holocene calendar	11506
Iranian calendar	884 – 885
Islamic calendar	911 – 912
Japanese calendar	Eishō 3 (永正3年)
Korean calendar	3839
Thai solar calendar	2049
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• February – George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (d. 1582)
• February 2 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
• April 7 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (d. 1552)
• April 13 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)
• July 1 – Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
• October – Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (d. 1566)
• date unknown
  • Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (d. 1579)
  • William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (d. 1563)
  • Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai (d. 1560)
• probable
  • Elizabeth Barton, English nun (d. 1534)
  • Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (d. 1543)

See also Category: 1506 births.

[edit] Deaths

• May 4 – Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
• May 20 – Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451)
• August – Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (b. c. 1445)
• August 19 – King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (b. 1461)
• September 13 – Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1432)
• September 25 – King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)

See also Category: 1506 deaths.