1506
| Centuries: | 15th century · 16th century · 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1503 1504 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509 |
| 1506 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 | |
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| Works | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1506 MDVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2259 |
| Armenian calendar | 955 ԹՎ ՋԾԵ |
| Chinese calendar | 4142/4202-12-8 (乙丑年十二月初八日) — to — 4143/4203-12-18(丙寅年十二月十八日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1498 – 1499 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5266 – 5267 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1561 – 1562 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1428 – 1429 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4607 – 4608 |
| Iranian calendar | 884 – 885 |
| Islamic calendar | 912 – 913 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2049 |
1506 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
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Events
- January 21—Pope Julius II founded Swiss Guard to serve as bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards, which they continue to do until the present day.
Births
- February 2 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
- April 7 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (died 1552)
- April 13 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (died 1546)
- July 1 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (died 1526)
- Elizabeth Barton, English nun (died 1534)
- George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (died 1582)
- Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (died 1438)
- Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (died 1543)
- Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (died 1566)
- Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (died 1579)
- William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (died 1563)
- Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai (died 1560)
Deaths
- May 4 - Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat (born 1438)
- May 20 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (born 1451)
- September 13 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (born 1432)
- September 25 - King Philip I of Castile (born 1478)
- Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (born c1445)
- King Alexander of Poland (born 1461)
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