1501

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

Contents

Events of 1501

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Events of 1501

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.

July - December

★ July 15 - Explorer Pedro Cabral arrives in Lisbon.

★ July 27 - Copernicus is formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.

★ October 13 - Treaty of Trente: Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII sign treaty, with Austria recognizing all French conquests in the northern territories of Italy.

★ 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.

Undated

★ Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue ''David''.

★ Czar Ivan III of Russia invades Lithuania.

★ Alexander becomes King of Poland.

★ 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 AD.

Births

★ January 16 - Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (died 1559)

★ January 17 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (died 1566)

★ May 6 - Pope Marcellus II (died 1555)

★ July 18 - Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (died 1526)

★ September 24 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (died 1567)

★ November 25 - Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (died 1570)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Girolamo da Carpi, Italian painter (died 1556)

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★ Dawit II of Ethiopia (died 1540)

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★ John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Tudor nobleman and politician (died 1553)

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★ Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese nobleman (died 1573)

★ ''probable''

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★ Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (approximate date; died 1578)

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★ Garcia de Orta, Portuguese physician (died 1568)

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★ Hilaire Penet, French composer
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Marriages

★ November 14 - Arthur Tudor and Catherine of Aragon.

Deaths

★ January 3 - Alisher Navoi, a Central Asian poet (born 1441)

★ February 1 - Sigismund of Bavaria (born 1439)

★ May 7 - Giovanni Battista Zeno, cardinal

★ September 20

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★ Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of Venice

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★ Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (born 1457)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer (born 1450)

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★ John I Albert of Poland (born 1459)

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★ John Doget, English diplomat

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★ Constantine Lascaris, Greek scholar and grammarian
: ''See also .''