1506
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This article is about the year 1506.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1503 1504 1505 – 1506 – 1507 1508 1509 |
| 1506 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1506 MDVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2259 |
| Armenian calendar | 955 ԹՎ ՋԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6256 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -338–-337 |
| Bengali calendar | 913 |
| Berber calendar | 2456 |
| English Regnal year | 21 Hen. 7 – 22 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2050 |
| Burmese calendar | 868 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7014–7015 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙丑年十二月初八日 (4142/4202-12-8) — to —
丙寅年十二月十八日(4143/4203-12-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 1222–1223 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1498–1499 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5266–5267 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1562–1563 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1428–1429 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4607–4608 |
| Holocene calendar | 11506 |
| Iranian calendar | 884–885 |
| Islamic calendar | 911–912 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 3 (永正3年) |
| Korean calendar | 3839 |
| Minguo calendar | 406 before ROC 民前406年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2049 |
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Year 1506 (MDVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- January 22 – The Swiss Guard arrives at the Vatican, to serve as permanent ceremonial and palace guards under Pope Julius II.
- April 18 – Pope Julius II lays the foundation stone of the new (current) St. Peter's Basilica, replacing the Old Saint Peter's Basilica.
[edit] July–December
- August 6 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk
- August 19 – Sigismund I the Old succeeds his brother as King of Poland.
[edit] Date unknown
- The Portuguese mariner Tristão da Cunha sights the islands of Tristan da Cunha, naming them after himself.
- In Ming Dynasty China, the costs of the courier system are met by a tax in silver on land instead of corvée labor service.
- Pope Julius II personally leads troops against the French invaders of Italy.
- Duarte Barbosa returns to Lisbon.
- Johannes Trithemius becomes abbot of the monastery of St. Jacob at Würzburg.
[edit] Births
- February – George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (d. 1582)
- February 2 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
- April 7 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (d. 1552)
- April 13 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)
- July 1 – Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
- October – Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (d. 1566)
- date unknown
- Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (d. 1579)
- William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (d. 1563)
- Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai (d. 1560)
- probable
- Elizabeth Barton, English nun (d. 1534)
- Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (d. 1543)
[edit] Deaths
- May 4 – Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
- May 20 – Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451)
- August – Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (b. c. 1445)
- August 19 – King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (b. 1461)
- September 13 – Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1432)
- September 25 – King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
