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| Years: 1499 1500 1501 - 1502 - 1503 1504 1505 | |
| Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- January 1 - Rio de Janeiro discovered.
- in Russia, Ivan II the Great attacks Livonia without success.
- 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.
- Aztec ruler Auitzotl dies; Moctezuma II elected emperor.
- Peter Henlein builds the first pocketwatch.
- "Newfoundland" gets its name from a letter.
- Christopher Columbus lands at Trujillo and named the mainland "Honduras".
- Portuguese explorers sailed into Guanabra Bay, Brazil and mistook it for the mouth of a river which they named Rio de Janeiro.
- Wittenberg University founded.
Births
- January 7 - Pope Gregory XIII, who implements the Gregorian Calendar in 1582
- June 6 - King John III of Portugal
- John Leland - English antiquarian
- Anne Boleyn - Later second Queen consort of Henry VIII of England. Another possible year of birth is 1507.
- Cuauhtémoc, later Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (estimated date).
- Elizabeth Blount, later mistress of Henry VIII of England (approximate date).
Deaths
- 2 April - Arthur Tudor (son of Henry VII of England).
- 6 May - James Tyrrell, executed; alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower
- Auitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
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