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 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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 Niccolò Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who bears him six children.

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
Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
date unknown
- 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 (approximate date; d. 1578)
- Garcia de Orta, Portuguese physician (d. 1568)
- Hilaire Penet, French composer
- Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII (d. 1536). (There is some debate over this. Many hypothesize that she was born much later, in 1507. Her father, Sir Thomas Boleyn, wrote in a letter: "[ Elizabeth Boleyn ] brought me every year a child [for the first five years of the marriage]." Since the couple were married sometime before 1499 and had five children (three surviving), this supports the argument that Anne was born sometime around 1501, with her sister Mary Boleyn being born around 1499, and their brother George Boleyn being born in 1504).

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