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Calendar year
April : the
Rebellion of the Alpujarras ends
Year 1501 (
MDI ) was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) in the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–March
April–June
April 7 –
Shwenankyawshin Narapati begins an almost 26-year reign as
King of Burma upon the death of his father, King Minkhaung II.
April 11 – The
Rebellion in the Alpujarras ends in southern
Spain with a treaty of surrender of the last Muslim insurgents in the
Alpujarra Mountains in
Andalusia on the Mediterranean Sea.
[3] The Muslims are given the choice of expulsion or conversion to
Christianity .
[4]
May 10 – The formal coronation of
King Shwenankyawshin of Burma takes place at his capital in
Inwa in the
Mandalay Region on the 9th waning of
Kason , 863
ME .
May 13 – The
Venetian Republic signs a treaty with the
Kingdom of Hungary and
Pope Alexander VI for troops to protect Venetian Dalmatia during the
Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503) .
May 15 –
Harmonice Musices Odhecaton , the first printed collection of
polyphonic music , is published by
Ottaviano Petrucci in
Venice .
June 9 – The semi-independent city of
Basel joins the
Swiss Confederation as the
eleventh canton of Switzerland .
[5]
June 17 –
Alexander Jagiellon ,
Grand Duke of Lithuania since 1492, becomes the new
King of Poland upon the sudden death of his older brother,
Jan I Olbracht .
June 23 –
Nicolau Coelho , part of Pedro Cabral's Portuguese expedition to India, returns home with one ship, having left ahead of Cabral.
June 24 –
Cesare Borgia 's French troops storm and
overtake the fortress at Capua in the
Kingdom of Naples , overcoming the defense of
Fabrizio Colonna in the occupation of the Spanish
Kingdom of Aragon in southern Italy.
July–September
July 21 – Portuguese explorer
Pedro Álvares Cabral and his surviving crew return to
Lisbon at the end of a 15-month expedition to India, with only seven of their original fleet of 13 ships. The cargo from India, however, returns a profit to the Portuguese crown of nine times its investment.
[6]
July 25 – The
Kingdom of Naples , led by
King Federico I , surrenders to Cesare Borgia's French and Aragonese troops.
July 27 –
Copernicus is formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.
August 1 –
Hans, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden is deposed from the Swedish throne after fleeing the country following the victory of Swedish rebels at
Örebro during the
War of Deposition against King Hans . His wife,
Christina of Saxony , is left behind at
Stockholm as his regent of Sweden, to command a royal garrison at
Tre Kronor ("Three Crowns"), the royal castle. Returning to Denmark, King Hans then organizes Danish troops to attempt to retake Sweden in the
Dano-Swedish War (1501–1512) .
August 2 – King Federico of Naples abdicates upon the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples by France, and France's
King Louis XII becomes the nominal monarch as
Luigi II, re di Napoli . King Louis appoints
Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours as France's
Viceroy of Naples .
August 27 –
Battle of the Siritsa River : The
Livonian Order , supporting the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the
Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War , and commanded by
Wolter von Plettenberg , defeats an army of the
Grand Duchy of Moscow and
Pskov Republic .
September 3 – On complaints from
Christopher Columbus , who had been replaced as
Viceroy of the New World and arrested in 1500 by
Francisco de Bobadilla ,
Queen Isabella of Spain orders that Bobadilla be recalled from
Santo Domingo . Declining to allow Columbus to resume his brutal rule of the New World, the Queen appoints a friend,
Nicolás de Ovando , as the new Viceroy. Although Bobadilla receives news of his firing several weeks later, he declines to step aside. Ovando will assemble a fleet of 30 ships and depart Spain on February 13 for Santo Domingo.
September 12 –
Maximilian I, Archduke of Austria , issues a decree making firearms safety tests mandatory.
September 18 –
Aleksandras Jogailaitis ,
Grand Duke of Lithuania , issues a decree requiring all Roman Catholic priests in the Duchy to become fluent in the
Lithuanian language .
September 27 – Queen Isabella orders New World Governor Bobadilla to return the assets confiscated from Christopher Columbus and the two other Columbus brothers.
[7]
October–December
October 2
October 13 –
Maximilian of Austria and
Louis XII of France sign the
Treaty of Trente with
Austria recognizing all
French conquests in the northern territories of
Italy .
October 30 – The
Banquet of Chestnuts is purportedly held by
Cesare Borgia , in the
Papal Palace of Rome (this account is not historical fact, and could be attributed to enemies of Alexander VI).
November 1 (
All Saints ) –
Amerigo Vespucci discovers and names
Baía de Todos os Santos , in
Brazil .
November 4
November 12 –
Sten Sture the Elder is elected Regent of Sweden for the second time, becoming the Scandinavian nation's chief executive after King Hans of Denmark is deposed. No replacement of the monarchy is planned by the rebel Swedish nobles.
November 14 –
Arthur, Prince of Wales , marries the Spanish princess
Catherine of Aragon .
November 24 – A large army of the
Grand Duchy of Moscow overruns
Livonia during the
Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War .
[8]
December 12 – Grand Duke
Aleksandras Jogailaitis ,
Grand Duke of Lithuania becomes the
King of Poland as Aleksander I Jagiellończyk.
December 22 – (1 Jumada al-Thani 907 AH)
Ismail I is enthroned as the first
Shah of Iran , choosing
Tabriz as his capital, founding the
Safavid dynasty in northern
Iran . He declares
Shi'ism the official and compulsory religion, under penalty of death.
December 31 –
First Battle of Cannanore :
João da Nova fleet engaged the fleet of the
Zamorin in a battle outside of the Cannanore harbor, the first Portuguese
naval battle in the
Indian Ocean .
Date unknown
Births
Isabella of Burgundy
Gerolamo Cardano
January 16 –
Anthony Denny , confidant of
Henry VIII of England (d.
1559 )
January 17 –
Leonhart Fuchs , German physician and botanist (d.
1566 )
January 24 –
Jacob Milich , German astronomer and mathematician (d.
1559 )
February 24 –
Sixt Birck , German humanist (d.
1554 )
March 21 –
Anne Brooke, Baroness Cobham , English noble (d.
1558 )
March 12 –
Pietro Andrea Mattioli , Italian scientist (d.
1577 )
May 6 –
Pope Marcellus II (d.
1555 )
May 17 –
Stanisław of Masovia , Polish duke (d.
1524 )
July 10 –
Cho Shik , Korean Confucian scholar and politician (d.
1572 )
July 18 –
Isabella of Burgundy , queen of
Christian II of Denmark (d.
1526 )
August 17 –
Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d.
1529 )
September 18 –
Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford , English baron (d.
1563 )
September 24 –
Gerolamo Cardano , Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (d.
1576 )
September 26 –
Gian Gabriele I of Saluzzo , Italian abbot, Marquess of Saluzzo (d.
1548 )
November 14 –
Anna of Oldenburg , Regent of East Frisia from 1540 to 1561 (d.
1575 )
December 2 –
Queen Munjeong , Korean queen (d.
1565 )
date unknown
probable
Deaths
January–June
Blessed
Columba of Rieti
John I Albert
January 3 –
Ali-Shir Nava'i , Central Asian poet, politician and writer (b.
1441 )
January 5 –
John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham , English baron and Lord High Treasurer (b.
1433 )
January 25 –
Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine , Princess of Bavaria-Landshut (b.
1456 )
February 1 –
Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria , German noble (b.
1439 )
March 4 –
Thihathura II of Ava (b.
1474 )
April –
John Doget , English diplomat
April 7 –
Minkhaung II , king of Ava (b.
1446 )
April 23 –
Domenico della Rovere , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.
1442 )
May 3 –
John Devereux, 9th Baron Ferrers of Chartley , English baron (b.
1463 )
May 7 –
Giovanni Battista Zeno , Italian Catholic cardinal
May 20 –
Columba of Rieti , Italian
Dominican tertiary Religious Sister and blessed (b.
1467 )
June 8 –
George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly , Earl of Huntly and Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b.
1440 )
June 17 –
John I Albert of Poland (b.
1459 )
July–December
Agostino Barbarigo
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^
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^ Andrew Wheatcroft, Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam (Random House, 2005) p. 126
^
Lea, Henry Charles (1901).
The Moriscos of Spain: Their Conversion and Expulsion . Lea Brothers & Company. p. 40.
ISBN
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^ Karl Strupp, Wörterbuch Des Völkerrechts (De Gruyter, 1960) p.225
^ William Brooks Greenlee, The Voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral to Brazil and India (Routledge, 2016) p. xxx
^ Lawrence Bergreen, Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1493–1504 (Penguin, 2011) p. 287
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