1501

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

Events of 1501

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.
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.

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.

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 de 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 Niccolo Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who bears him six children.

1501 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1501
MDI
Ab urbe condita 2254
Armenian calendar 950
ԹՎ ՋԾ
Bahá'í calendar -343 – -342
Berber calendar 2451
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)

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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 1556 – 1557
- 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
Thai solar calendar 2044

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. 1567)
November 25 - Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
date unknown
- Girolamo da Carpi, Italian painter (d. 1556)
- Dawit II of Ethiopia (d. 1540)
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Tudor nobleman and politician (d. 1553)
- Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese nobleman (d. 1573)
probable
- Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (approximate date; d. 1578)
- Garcia de Orta, Portuguese physician (d. 1568)
- Hilaire Penet, French composer
- Anne Boleyn 2 wife of Henry VIII