1501
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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s
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| Years: | 1498 1499 1500 - 1501 - 1502 1503 1504 |
| 1501 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1501 (MDI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1501
[edit] 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.
[edit] July - December
- July 15 - Explorer Pedro Cabral arrives in Lisbon.
- July 27 - Copernicus is formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.
- August 26 — Canton of Basel 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 treaty, with Austria recognizing all French conquests in the northern territories of Italy.
- 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.
[edit] 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.
- 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 AD.
- The famous Florentine political theorist, statesman, and writer Niccolo Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who bears him six children.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1501 MDI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2254 |
| Armenian calendar | 950 ԹՎ ՋԾ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -343 – -342 |
| Berber calendar | 2451 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2045 |
| Burmese calendar | 863 |
| Chinese calendar | 4137/4197-12-12 (庚申年十二月十二日) — to — 4138/4198-11-22(辛酉年十一月廿二日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1217 – 1218 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1493 – 1494 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5261 – 5262 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1556 – 1557 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1423 – 1424 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4602 – 4603 |
| Holocene calendar | 11501 |
| Iranian calendar | 879 – 880 |
| Islamic calendar | 906 – 907 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiō 10Bunki 1 (文亀元年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2161 (皇紀2161年) |
| Julian calendar | 1546 |
| Korean calendar | 3834 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2044 |
- January 16 - Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (died 1559)
- January 17 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (died 1566)
- May 6 - Pope Marcellus II (died 1555)
- July 18 - Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (died 1526)
- September 24 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (died 1567)
- November 25 - Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (died 1570)
- date unknown
- Girolamo da Carpi, Italian painter (died 1556)
- Dawit II of Ethiopia (died 1540)
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Tudor nobleman and politician (died 1553)
- Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese nobleman (died 1573)
- probable
- Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (approximate date; died 1578)
- Garcia de Orta, Portuguese physician (died 1568)
- Hilaire Penet, French composer
- See also Category: 1501 births.
[edit] Marriages
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 - Alisher Navoi, a Central Asian poet (born 1441)
- February 1 - Sigismund of Bavaria (born 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 (born 1457)
- date unknown
- Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer (born 1450)
- John I Albert of Poland (born 1459)
- John Doget, English diplomat
- Constantine Lascaris, Greek scholar and grammarian
- See also Category: 1501 deaths.af:1501
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