1501
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Year 1501 (MDI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events
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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.
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July–December
- July 15 – Explorer Pedro Cabral arrives in Lisbon.
- July 27 – Copernicus is formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.
- August 26 – The Canton of Basel is 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 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 – 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.
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- 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.
- Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David.
- Czar Ivan III of Russia invades Lithuania.
- Alexander Jagiellon becomes King of Poland.
- Ismail I conqueres Tabriz. He declares Shi'ism the official and compulsory religion under penalty of death.
- The Safavid kingdom is established in northern Iran.
- 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.
- The famous Florentine political theorist, statesman, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who bears him six children.
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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)
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- 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 wife of Henry VIII (b. this year or 1507; d. 1536)
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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
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