1502
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Italian translation of Herodotus' Histories done for Count Matteo Maria Boiardo and published in Venice, Aldine Press in 1502.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1502 MDII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2255 |
| Armenian calendar | 951 ԹՎ ՋԾԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6252 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −342 – −341 |
| Bengali calendar | 909 |
| Berber calendar | 2452 |
| English Regnal year | 17 Hen. 7 – 18 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2046 |
| Burmese calendar | 864 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7010–7011 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4198 or 4138 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4199 or 4139 |
| Coptic calendar | 1218–1219 |
| Discordian calendar | 2668 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1494–1495 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5262–5263 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1558–1559 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1424–1425 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4603–4604 |
| Holocene calendar | 11502 |
| Igbo calendar | 502–503 |
| Iranian calendar | 880–881 |
| Islamic calendar | 907–908 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunki 2 (文亀２年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 1502 MDII |
| Korean calendar | 3835 |
| Minguo calendar | 410 before ROC 民前410年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2045 |
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Year 1502 (MDII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 1 – Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral, sail into Guanabara Bay, Brazil, mistaking it for the mouth of a river, which they name Rio de Janeiro.
- May 11 – Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain for his fourth and final trip to the 'New World'. He explores Central America, and discovers St. Lucia (possibly),[1] the Isthmus of Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica.
- May 21 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova discovers the uninhabited island of Saint Helena.
July–December
- July – Ismail I becomes Shah of Azerbaijan,.[2]
- August 14 – Christopher Columbus lands at Trujillo and names the country 'Honduras'.
- September – A Greek and Italian parallel text edition of Herodotus' Histories done for Count Matteo Maria Boiardo is published in Venice by Aldus Manutius.
- September 18 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica.
- November 7 – Columbus reaches the coast of Honduras and passes south to Panama.
- December 26 – Cesare Borgia kills Ramiro D'Orco; this incident is referenced in Machiavelli's The Prince
- December 31 – Cesare Borgia (son of Pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino, where he imprisons two potentially treacherous allies, Vitellozzo and Oliveretto; he executes them the next morning.
Date unknown
- The first African slaves brought to the New World arrive at the island of Hispaniola (modern-day Haiti and Dominican Republic).
- Bristol merchants return from Newfoundland (first so named this year from a letter) to England carrying three native people and cod from the Grand Banks.[3][4]
- Moctezuma II is elected emperor of the Aztecs, following the death of Ahuitzotl.
- Meñli I Giray defeats the Golden Horde and sacks their capital, Sarai.
- Wittenberg University is founded.
- In Germany, Peter Henlein of Nuremberg uses iron parts and coiled springs to build a portable timepiece.
- In Italy, Asher Lämmlein declares that the Jewish Messiah will arrive in the next 6 months, resulting in the 'year of penance.'
- The King's School, Macclesfield, England, is founded by Sir John Percyvale.
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is proceeded to licentiate.
- Wilhelm Bombast moves to Villach with his son, Paracelsus.
Births
- January 7 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 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 (d. 1574)
- June 6 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
- September 13 – John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)
- date unknown
- St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (d. 1539)
- Takeno Joou, Japanese tea practicer of the Sengoku period (d. 1555)
- Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (d. 1572)
- Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (d. 1578)
- Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (d. 1543)
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- Elizabeth Blount, mistress of King Henry VIII (d. 1540)
- Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and the last "Aztec Emperor" (d. 1525)
- Stephen Hawes, English poet (d. c. 1521)
- Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc, marshal of France (approximate date; d. 1577)
- Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English courtier (d. 1537)
Deaths
- March - Francesco Laurana, sculptor
- April 2 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII of England (b. 1486)
- May 6 – James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the princes in the Tower (executed) (b. c. 1450)
- September 1 – Sōgi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (b. 1421)
- November 13 – Annio da Viterbo, Dominican friar and scholar
- December 31 – Vitellozzo Vitelli, condottiero
- date unknown
- Ahuitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- Octavien de Saint-Gelais, poet and translator (b. 1468)
References
- ↑ "History of St. Lucia". Retrieved 2011-05-06.
- ↑ The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1991, ISBN 978-0-85229-529-8, p. 295.
- ↑ Fabyan, Robert (1516). The New Chronicles of England and France.
- ↑ Nansen, Fridtjof. In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times.
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