1502
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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s
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| Years: | 1499 1500 1501 - 1502 - 1503 1504 1505 |
| 1502 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1502 (MDII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1502
[edit] January - June
- January 1 - Portuguese explorers lead by Pedro Álvares Cabral sailed into Guanabara Bay, Brazil and mistook it for the mouth of a river which they named Rio de Janeiro.
- May 11 - Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain for his fourth [1] and final trip to the "New World". He explored Central America, and discovered St. Lucia, the Isthmus of Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica.
- May 21 - Portuguese navigator João da Nova discovers island of Saint Helena.
[edit] July - December
- September 18 - Christopher Columbus landed at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage.
- November 7 - Columbus reached the coast of Honduras and passed south to Panama.
- December 31 - Cesare Borgia (son of Pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino.
- December 31 - Cesare Borgia imprisons two potentially treacherous allies, Vitellozzo and Oliveretto - he executes them the next morning.
[edit] Undated
- First African slaves brought to the New World arrived at the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic).
- Ivan III of Russia and Meñli I Giray of Crimea attack Grand Duchy of Lithuania without much success.
- Meñli I Giray of Crimea destroys Saray, capital of Big Horde.
- Aztec ruler Auitzotl dies; Moctezuma II elected emperor.
- "Newfoundland" gets its name from a letter.
- Christopher Columbus lands at Trujillo and named the mainland "Honduras".
- Wittenberg University is founded.
- In Germany, Peter Henlein of Nuremberg used iron parts and coiled springs to build a portable timepiece.
- In Italy, Asher Lämmlein declares the Jewish Messiah would arrive in the next six months, resulting in the "year of penance."
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1502 MDII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2255 |
| Armenian calendar | 951 ԹՎ ՋԾԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -342 – -341 |
| Berber calendar | 2452 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2046 |
| Burmese calendar | 864 |
| Chinese calendar | 4138/4198-11-23 (辛酉年十一月廿三日) — to — 4139/4199-12-3(壬戌年十二月初三日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1218 – 1219 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1494 – 1495 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5262 – 5263 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1557 – 1558 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1424 – 1425 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4603 – 4604 |
| Holocene calendar | 11502 |
| Iranian calendar | 880 – 881 |
| Islamic calendar | 907 – 908 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunki 2 (文亀2年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2162 (皇紀2162年) |
| Julian calendar | 1547 |
| Korean calendar | 3835 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2045 |
- January 7 - Pope Gregory XIII (died 1585)
- February 2 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574)
- March 20 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)
- April 25 - Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (died 1574)
- June 6 - King John III of Portugal (died 1557)
- September 13 - John Leland, English antiquarian (died 1552)
- date unknown
- St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (died 1539)
- Takeno Joou, Japanese tea practicer of Sengoku period (died 1555)
- Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (died 1572)
- Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (died 1578)
- Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English courtier (died 1537)
- Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (died 1543)
- probable
- Elizabeth Blount, mistress of King Henry VIII; died 1540)
- Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and the last "Aztec Emperor" (died 1525)
- Stephen Hawes, English poet (died c.1521)
- Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc, marshal of France (approximate date; died 1577)
- See also Category: 1502 births.
[edit] Deaths
- April 2 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII of England (born 1486)
- May 6 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the princes in the Tower (executed) (born c. 1450)
- November 13 - Annio da Viterbo, Dominican friar and scholar
- December 31 - Vitellozzo Vitelli, condottiero
- date unknown
- Auitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- Margaret Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (born c. 1475)
- Francesco Laurana, sculptor
- Octavien de Saint-Gelais, poet and translator (born 1468)
- Sogi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (born 1421)
- Alvise Vivarini, Italian painter (born c. 1446)
- Matthias of Geatland, the Waffle Knight of legend.
- See also Category: 1502 deaths.af:1502
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