1501

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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
Decades:	1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s
Years:	1498 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503 1504

1501 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1501 MDI
Ab urbe condita	2254
Armenian calendar	950 ԹՎ ՋԾ
Assyrian calendar	6251
Balinese saka calendar	1422–1423
Bengali calendar	908
Berber calendar	2451
English Regnal year	16 Hen. 7 – 17 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2045
Burmese calendar	863
Byzantine calendar	7009–7010
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4197 or 4137     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4198 or 4138
Coptic calendar	1217–1218
Discordian calendar	2667
Ethiopian calendar	1493–1494
Hebrew calendar	5261–5262
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1557–1558
- Shaka Samvat	1422–1423
- Kali Yuga	4601–4602
Holocene calendar	11501
Igbo calendar	501–502
Iranian calendar	879–880
Islamic calendar	906–907
Japanese calendar	Meiō 10 / Bunki 1 (文亀元年)
Javanese calendar	1418–1419
Julian calendar	1501 MDI
Korean calendar	3834
Minguo calendar	411 before ROC 民前411年
Nanakshahi calendar	33
Thai solar calendar	2043–2044
Tibetan calendar	阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1627 or 1246 or 474     — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1628 or 1247 or 475

April: the Rebellion of the Alpujarras ends

Events

January–June

• January 17 – Cesare Borgia returns triumphantly to Rome, from Romagna.
• March 25 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova probably discovers Ascension Island.[1] It is definitely sighted and named on May 20, 1503 (Feast of the Ascension) by Afonso de Albuquerque.[2]
• April – The Rebellion of the Alpujarras ends with the surrender of the last Muslim insurgents in the Alpujarra Mountains, who are given the choice of expulsion or conversion to Christianity.[3]
• May 15 – Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, the first printed collection of polyphonic music, is published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice.

July–December

• July – Ismail I is enthroned as Shah of Azerbaijan, choosing Tabriz as his capital, founding the Safavid Dynasty in northern Iran. He declares Shi'ism the official and compulsory religion, under penalty of death.
• July 21 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral returns to Lisbon from his expedition to Calicut (Nicolau Coelho having arrived on June 23).
• July 27 – Copernicus is formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.
• August
  • John, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden is deposed from the Swedish throne, starting the Dano-Swedish War (1501–1512).
  • Florentine political theorist, statesman, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who will bear him six children.
• August 27 – Battle of the Siritsa River: The Livonian Order, supporting the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War, and commanded by Wolter von Plettenberg, defeats an army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Pskov Republic.
• October 13
  • Treaty of Trente: Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII of France sign the treaty, with Austria recognizing all French conquests in the northern territories of Italy.
  • Leonardo Loredan is elected 75th doge of the Venetian Republic.
• October 30 – The Banquet of Chestnuts is purportedly held by Cesare Borgia, in the Papal Palace of Rome (this account is not historical fact, and could be attributed to enemies of Alexander VI).
• November 1 (All Saints) – Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names Baía de Todos os Santos, in Brazil.
• November 4
  • Battle of Mstislavl (Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War): Grand Prince Ivan's Southern Muscovite army defeats the forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.[4]
  • Philip and Joanna of Castile leave for Spain.
• November 12 – Sten Sture the Elder is elected Regent of Sweden for the second time.
• November 14 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon.
• November 24 – A large army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow overruns Livonia during the Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War.[4]
• December 12 – Alexander Jagiellon becomes King of Poland.
• December 31 – First Battle of Cannanore: João da Nova fleet engaged the fleet of the Zamorin in a battle outside of the Cannanore harbor, the first Portuguese naval battle in the Indian Ocean.

Date unknown

• The Swiss cantons of Basel and Schaffhausen join the Old Swiss Confederacy.
• Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese navigator, makes the first documented European landing in North America since c. 1000 A.D.
• Rodrigo de Bastidas, sailing westward from Venezuela in search of gold, becomes the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama.
• Amerigo Vespucci maps the two stars Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, as well as the stars of the constellation Crux, which are below the horizon in Europe.
• Dhaulpur is taken by Sikandar Lodi.
• Michelangelo returns to his native Florence, to begin work on the statue David.
• Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an edition of Virgil.
• Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt.

Births

Isabella of Burgundy

Gerolamo Cardano

• January 16 – Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
• January 17 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
• January 24 – Jacob Milich, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1559)
• February 24 – Sixt Birck, German humanist (d. 1554)
• March 21 – Anne Brooke, Baroness Cobham, English noble (d. 1558)
• March 12 – Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian scientist (d. 1577)
• May 6 – Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
• May 17 – Stanisław of Masovia, Polish duke (d. 1524)
• July 10 – Cho Shik, Korean Confucian scholar and politician (d. 1572)
• July 18 – Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526)
• August 17 – Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1529)
• September 18 – Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, English baron (d. 1563)
• September 24 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (d. 1576)
• September 26 – Gian Gabriele I of Saluzzo, Italian abbot, Marquess of Saluzzo (d. 1548)
• November 14 – Anna of Oldenburg, Regent of East Frisia from 1540 to 1561 (d. 1575)
• December 2 – Queen Munjeong, Korean queen (d. 1565)
• date unknown
  • Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
  • Girolamo da Carpi, Italian painter (d. 1556)
  • Dawit II of Ethiopia (d. 1540)
  • Bauck Poppema, Dutch noble and heroine
  • Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England (b. this year or 1507; d. 1536)
  • Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese nobleman (d. 1573)
• probable
  • Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (d. 1578)
  • Garcia de Orta, Portuguese physician (d. 1568)
  • Hilaire Penet, French composer

Deaths

January–June

Blessed Columba of Rieti

John I Albert

• January 3 – Ali-Shir Nava'i, Central Asian poet, politician and writer (b. 1441)
• January 5 – John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham, English baron and Lord High Treasurer (b. 1433)
• January 25 – Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine, Princess of Bavaria-Landshut (b. 1456)
• February 1 – Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria, German noble (b. 1439)
• March 4 – Thihathura II of Ava (b. 1474)
• April – John Doget, English diplomat
• April 7 – Minkhaung II, king of Ava (b. 1446)
• April 23 – Domenico della Rovere, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1442)
• May 3 – John Devereux, 9th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, English baron (b. 1463)
• May 7 – Giovanni Battista Zeno, Italian Catholic cardinal
• May 20 – Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican tertiary Religious Sister and blessed (b. 1467)
• June 8 – George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, Earl of Huntly and Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1440)
• June 17 – John I Albert of Poland (b. 1459)

July–December

Agostino Barbarigo

• August 15 – Constantine Lascaris, Greek scholar and grammarian
• September 20
  • Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of Venice
  • Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (b. 1457)
• September 26 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright (b. 1461)
• September 29 – Andrew Stewart, Scottish bishop (b. 1442)
• November 19 – Amalia of Saxony, Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut (b. 1436)
• probable – Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer (b. 1450)

References

1. Albuquerque, Afonso de (2001). The commentaries of the great Afonso Dalboquerque, second viceroy of India, Adamant Media Corporation, p.xx. Issue 55. ISBN 1-4021-9511-7.
2. "Ascension History". Mysterra Magazine. Archived from the original on June 13, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
3. Lea, Henry Charles (1901). The Moriscos of Spain: Their Conversion and Expulsion. Lea Brothers & Company. p. 40.
4. "Ivan III Vasil'yevich (1440–1505)". Russia – Rulers. Xenophon Group International. Retrieved July 22, 2013.