1501

1501

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

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.
* 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.

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 Niccolo Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who bears him six children.

Births


* 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. 1567)
* November 25 - Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
*"date unknown"
**Girolamo da Carpi, Italian painter (d. 1556)
**Dawit II of Ethiopia (d. 1540)
**John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Tudor nobleman and politician (d. 1553)
**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 2 wife of Henry VIII

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


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