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| Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- January 1 - Portuguese 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 Saray, 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)af:1502
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