1502 Totally Explained

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Year 1502 (MDII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1502

January - June

January 1 - Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral, sail into Guanabara Bay, Brazil, mistaking it for the mouth of a river, which they name Rio de Janeiro.
May 11 - Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain for his fourth (External Link) and final trip to the "New World". He explores Central America, and discovers St. Lucia, the Isthmus of Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica.
May 21 - Portuguese navigator João da Nova discovers the island of Saint Helena.

July - December

September 18 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage.

November 7 - Columbus reaches the coast of Honduras and passes south to Panama.

December 31 - Cesare Borgia (son of Pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino, where he imprisons two potentially treacherous allies, Vitellozzo and Oliveretto; he executes them the next morning.

Undated

The first African slaves brought to the New World arrive at the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic).

Ivan III of Russia and Meñli I Giray of Crimea attack the Grand Duchy of Lithuania without much success.

Meñli I Giray of Crimea destroys Saray, capital of the Big Horde.

Aztec ruler Auitzotl dies; Moctezuma II is elected emperor.

"Newfoundland" gets its name from a letter.

Christopher Columbus lands at Trujillo and names the mainland "Honduras".

Wittenberg University is founded.

In Germany, Peter Henlein of Nuremberg uses iron parts and coiled springs to build a portable timepiece.

In Italy, Asher Lämmlein declares that the Jewish Messiah will arrive in the next 6 months, resulting in the "year of penance."

Ismail I starts to rule.

Births

January 7 - Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)

February 2 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574)

March 20 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)

April 25 - Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1574)

June 6 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)

September 13 - John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)

date unknown

St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (d. 1539)
Takeno Joou, Japanese tea practicer of the Sengoku period (d. 1555)
Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (d. 1572)
Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (d. 1578)
Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English courtier (d. 1537)
Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (d. 1543)

probable

Elizabeth Blount, mistress of King Henry VIII (d. 1540)
Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and the last "Aztec Emperor" (d. 1525)
Stephen Hawes, English poet (d. c.1521)
Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc, marshal of France (approximate date; d. 1577)

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Deaths

April 2 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII of England (b. 1486)

May 6 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the princes in the Tower (executed) (b. c. 1450)

November 13 - Annio da Viterbo, Dominican friar and scholar

December 31 - Vitellozzo Vitelli, condottiero

date unknown

Auitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
Margaret Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (b. c. 1475)
Francesco Laurana, sculptor
Octavien de Saint-Gelais, poet and translator (b. 1468)
Sōgi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (b. 1421)
Alvise Vivarini, Italian painter (b. c. 1446)
Matthias of Geatland, the Waffle Knight of legend

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