1501

This article is about the year 1501.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1498 1499 1500 – 1501 – 1502 1503 1504

1501 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1501 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1501 MDI
Ab urbe condita	2254
Armenian calendar	950 ԹՎ ՋԾ
Assyrian calendar	6251
Bahá'í calendar	-343–-342
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	庚申年十二月十二日 (4137/4197-12-12) — to — 辛酉年十一月廿二日 (4138/4198-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1217–1218
Ethiopian calendar	1493–1494
Hebrew calendar	5261–5262
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1557–1558
- 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)
Korean calendar	3834
Minguo calendar	411 before ROC 民前411年
Thai solar calendar	2044

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

Events

January–June

• January 17 – Cesare Borgia returns triumphantly to Rome from Romagna.
• March 25 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova probably discovers Ascension Island. It is definitely sighted and named on May 20 1503 (Feast of the Ascension) by Afonso de Albuquerque.

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.
• 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.
• October 30 – The Banquet of Chestnuts is held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace of Rome.
• November 1 (All Saints) – Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names Baía de Todos os Santos in Brazil.
• November 4 – Philip and Joanna of Castile leave for Spain.
• November 14 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon.
• December 12 – Alexander Jagiellon becomes King of Poland.

Date unknown

• The Swiss cantons of Basel and Schaffhausen secede from the Holy Roman Empire and join the Old Swiss Confederacy.
• 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.
• Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David.
• Czar Ivan III of Russia invades Lithuania.
• Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt.
• 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.
• The Florentine political theorist, statesman, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who will bear 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. 1576)
• April 16 – Shaun Drennan, Irish plantation warrior
• date unknown
  • Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
  • Girolamo da Carpi, Italian painter (d. 1556)
  • Dawit II of Ethiopia (d. 1540)
  • 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
• possible
  • Anne Boleyn, Second Queen of Henry VIII of England (born this year or 1507; d. 1536)

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