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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 - Portugal 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 Sarai (city), 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, pope from 1572 to 1585 (died 1585) * March 20 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist * April 25 - Georg Major, Lutheran theologian of the Protestant Reformation (died 1574) * June 6 - King John III of Portugal, fifteenth king of Portugal (died 1557) * September 13 - John Leland, English antiquarian (died 1552) * St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (died 1539) * Stephen Hawes, popular English poet (died 1521) * Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English courtier (died 1537) * Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (died 1578) * Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (died 1543) ==Deaths== * April 2 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII of England * May 6 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) (born 1450) * Auitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan * Margaret Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (born 1475) * Alvise Vivarini, Italian painter (born 1446) 1502 os:1502 simple:1502
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
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 - Portugal 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 Sarai (city), 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, pope from 1572 to 1585 (died 1585) * March 20 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist * April 25 - Georg Major, Lutheran theologian of the Protestant Reformation (died 1574) * June 6 - King John III of Portugal, fifteenth king of Portugal (died 1557) * September 13 - John Leland, English antiquarian (died 1552) * St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (died 1539) * Stephen Hawes, popular English poet (died 1521) * Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English courtier (died 1537) * Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (died 1578) * Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (died 1543) ==Deaths== * April 2 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII of England * May 6 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) (born 1450) * Auitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan * Margaret Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (born 1475) * Alvise Vivarini, Italian painter (born 1446) 1502 os:1502 simple:1502
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