1501 Totally Explained

Everything about 1501 totally explained

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 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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