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

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Events of 1506

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1506

January - June

★ January 22 - Swiss Guard arrives at the Vatican, to serve as permanent bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards (under Pope Julius II).

★ April 18 - Pope Julius II laid the foundation stone of the new (Current) St. Peter's Basilica, replacing the Old Saint Peter's Basilica.

July - December

★ August 19 - Sigismund I the Old succeeds his brother as King of Poland.

Undated

★ Laocoön and his Sons by Hagesandros, Polydoros, Athanadoros of Rhodes is discovered. Perhaps the original of 2nd century BC or 1st century BC or a Roman copy of the 1st century AD is now at Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio Clementino, Cortile Ottagono, Rome.

★ The Portuguese mariner Tristão da Cunha sighted the islands of Tristan da Cunha, naming the larger one with his own name.

Births

★ February - George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (died 1582)

★ February 2 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)

★ April 7 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (died 1552)

★ April 13 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (died 1546)

★ July 1 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (died 1526)

★ October - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (died 1566)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (died 1579)

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★ William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (died 1563)

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★ Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai (died 1560)

★ ''probable''

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★ Elizabeth Barton, English nun (died 1534)

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★ Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (died 1438)

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★ Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (died 1543)
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Deaths

★ May 4 - Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat (born 1438)

★ May 20 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (born 1451)

★ August - Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (born c1445)

★ August 19 - King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (born 1461)

★ September 13 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (born 1432)

★ September 25 - King Philip I of Castile (born 1478)
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