1501
| Centuries: | 15th century · 16th century · 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1498 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503 1504 |
| 1501 by topic | |
| Arts and science | |
| Architecture - Art - Music - Science | |
| Lists of leaders | |
| Colonial governors - State leaders | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Works category | |
| Works | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1501 MDI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2254 |
| Armenian calendar | 950 ԹՎ ՋԾ |
| Chinese calendar | 4137/4197-12-12 (庚申年十二月十二日) — to — 4138/4198-11-22(辛酉年十一月廿二日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1493 – 1494 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5261 – 5262 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1556 – 1557 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1423 – 1424 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4602 – 4603 |
| Iranian calendar | 879 – 880 |
| Islamic calendar | 906 – 908 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2044 |
1501 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
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Events
- Alexander becomes King of Poland.
- The Safavid kingdom was established in northern Iran.
- Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt.
Births
- January 16 - Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England (died 1559)
- January 17 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (died 1566)
- May 6 - Pope Marcellus II (died 1555)
- July 18 - Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (died 1526)
- September 24 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (died 1567)
- November 25 - Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (died 1570)
- Girolamo da Carpi, Italian painter (died 1556)
- Dawit II of Ethiopia (died 1540)
- Nikolaus Federmann, German adventurer in Venezuela and Colombia (died 1542)
- Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (approximate date; died 1578)
- Pedro de Mendoza, Spanish conquistador (died 1537)
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Tudor nobleman and politician (died 1553)
- Garcia de Orta, Portuguese physician (died 1568)
- Hilaire Penet, French composer
- Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese nobleman (died 1573)
Marriages
Deaths
- September 20 - Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (born 1457)
- Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer (born 1450)
- John Doget, English diplomat
- Constantine Lascaris, Greek scholar and grammarian
- Alisher Navoi, a Central Asian poet (born 1441)
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1501