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1499 1500 1501 - 1502 - 1503 1504 1505 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1470s 1480s 1490s - '''1500s''' - 1510s 1520s 1530s |- | align="center" | '''Centuries:'''
15th_century - '''16th_century''' - 17th_century |} ==Events== * January_1 - Portuguese explorers sailed into Guanabra_Bay, Brazil and mistook it for the mouth of a river which they named Rio_de_Janeiro * May_9 - Christopher_Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final trip to the "New_World". * May_21 - Portuguese discover island of St_Helena. * December_31 - Cesare_Borgia imprisons two potentially treacherous allies, Vitelozzo and Oliveretto - he executes them the next morning. * Ivan_III_of_Russia and Mengli_Ghiray of Crimean_Khanate attack Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania without much success. * Mengli Ghiray of Crimean Khanate 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 founded. ==Births== * 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) * St._Anthony_Maria_Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (died 1539) * 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 1521) * Takeno_Joou, Japanese tea practicer of Sengoku period (died 1555) * Miguel_López_de_Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (died 1572) * Blaise_de_Lasseran-Massencôme,_seigneur_de_Montluc, marshal of France (approximate date; died 1577) * Pedro_Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (died 1578) * Henry_Percy,_6th_Earl_of_Northumberland, English courtier (died 1537) * Francesco_Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (died 1543) ==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) * Auitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan * Margaret_Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (born c. 1475) * Sogi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (born 1421) * Alvise_Vivarini, Italian painter (born c. 1446) Category:1502 Af:1502 Ast:1502 Bg:1502 Bs:1502 Ca:1502 Cv:1502 Cs:1502 Cy:1502 Da:1502 De:1502 Et:1502 El:1502 Als:1502 Es:1502 Eo:1502 Eu:1502 Fr:1502 Gl:1502 Ko:1502년 Hr:1502 Io:1502 Is:1502 It:1502 He:1502 Lt:1502 Lb:1502 Hu:1502 Mk:1502 Nl:1502 No:1502 Nn:1502 Os:1502 Pl:1502 Pt:1502 Ro:1502 Ru:1502 Simple:1502 Sk:1502 Sl:1502 Sr:1502 Fi:1502 Sv:1502 Tt:1502 Tr:1502 Uk:1502 Zh:1502年
1499 1500 1501 - 1502 - 1503 1504 1505 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1470s 1480s 1490s - '''1500s''' - 1510s 1520s 1530s |- | align="center" | '''Centuries:'''
15th_century - '''16th_century''' - 17th_century |} ==Events== * January_1 - Portuguese explorers sailed into Guanabra_Bay, Brazil and mistook it for the mouth of a river which they named Rio_de_Janeiro * May_9 - Christopher_Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final trip to the "New_World". * May_21 - Portuguese discover island of St_Helena. * December_31 - Cesare_Borgia imprisons two potentially treacherous allies, Vitelozzo and Oliveretto - he executes them the next morning. * Ivan_III_of_Russia and Mengli_Ghiray of Crimean_Khanate attack Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania without much success. * Mengli Ghiray of Crimean Khanate 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 founded. ==Births== * 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) * St._Anthony_Maria_Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (died 1539) * 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 1521) * Takeno_Joou, Japanese tea practicer of Sengoku period (died 1555) * Miguel_López_de_Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (died 1572) * Blaise_de_Lasseran-Massencôme,_seigneur_de_Montluc, marshal of France (approximate date; died 1577) * Pedro_Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (died 1578) * Henry_Percy,_6th_Earl_of_Northumberland, English courtier (died 1537) * Francesco_Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (died 1543) ==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) * Auitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan * Margaret_Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (born c. 1475) * Sogi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (born 1421) * Alvise_Vivarini, Italian painter (born c. 1446) Category:1502 Af:1502 Ast:1502 Bg:1502 Bs:1502 Ca:1502 Cv:1502 Cs:1502 Cy:1502 Da:1502 De:1502 Et:1502 El:1502 Als:1502 Es:1502 Eo:1502 Eu:1502 Fr:1502 Gl:1502 Ko:1502년 Hr:1502 Io:1502 Is:1502 It:1502 He:1502 Lt:1502 Lb:1502 Hu:1502 Mk:1502 Nl:1502 No:1502 Nn:1502 Os:1502 Pl:1502 Pt:1502 Ro:1502 Ru:1502 Simple:1502 Sk:1502 Sl:1502 Sr:1502 Fi:1502 Sv:1502 Tt:1502 Tr:1502 Uk:1502 Zh:1502年