- 1501
Year 1501 (MDI) was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1501
January - June
*January 17 -Cesare Borgia returns triumphantly to Rome from Romagna.
*April 23 - The Portuguese navigatorPedro Cabral and 6 ships return toLisbon .
*May 20 - Joao da Nova Castell discoversAscension Island .
*Amerigo Vespucci maps the twostar sAlpha Centauri andBeta Centauri , as well as the stars of theconstellation Crux , which were below the horizon inEurope .July - December
*July 15 - ExplorerPedro Cabral arrives inLisbon .
*July 27 -Copernicus is formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.
*August 26 - TheCanton of Basel is partitioned in twain by the Swiss "Tagsatzung ", to create the two half-cantons ofBasel-City andBasel-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 - TheBanquet of Chestnuts is held byCesare Borgia in thePapal Palace of Rome.
*November 1 -Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names All Saints' Bay.
*November 4 - Philip de Blank and Juana "la Loca" leave forSpain .
*November 14 -Arthur, Prince of Wales , marries the Spanish princess,Catherine of Aragon .Undated
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Michelangelo returns to his nativeFlorence to begin work on the statue "David".
* Czar Ivan III of Russia invadesLithuania .
* Alexander Jagiellon becomes King of Poland.
*Ismail I conqueresTabriz . He declaresShi'ism the official and compulsory religion under penalty of death.
* The Safavid kingdom is established in northernIran .
*Martin Luther enters theUniversity 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 writerNiccolo Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who bears him six children.Births
*January 16 -Anthony Denny , confidant ofHenry 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 ofChristian 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 ,Japan ese nobleman (d.1573 )
*"probable"
**Nicholas Heath ,archbishop of York andLord Chancellor (approximate date; d.1578 )
**Garcia de Orta , Portuguese physician (d.1568 )
**Hilaire Penet , French composer
** Anne Boleyn 2 wife of Henry VIIIDeaths
*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 ofEdward 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 andgrammar ian
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