Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  - 1500s -  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1503 1504 1505 - 1506 - 1507 1508 1509

1506 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1506 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1506

January 22: Swiss Guard.

January - June

• January 22 - The Swiss Guard arrives at the Vatican, to serve as permanent ceremonial and palace guards under Pope Julius II.
• April 18 - Pope Julius II lays the foundation stone of the new (current) St. Peter's Basilica, replacing the Old Saint Peter's Basilica.

July - December

• August 19 - Sigismund I the Old succeeds his brother as King of Poland.

Undated

• The Portuguese mariner Tristão da Cunha sights the islands of Tristan da Cunha, naming the larger one with his own name.
• In Ming Dynasty China, the local costs of the courier system are met by a tax in silver assessed by the property of land instead of by corvée labor service.
• Pope Julius II personally leads papal troops against the French invaders of Italy.
• Duarte Barbosa returns to Lisbon.

Births

• February - George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (d. 1582)
• February 2 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
• April 7 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (d. 1552)
• April 13 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)
• July 1 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
• October - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (d. 1566)
• date unknown
  • Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (d. 1579)
  • William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (d. 1563)
  • Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai (d. 1560)
• probable
  • Elizabeth Barton, English nun (d. 1534)
  • Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (d. 1438)
  • Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (d. 1543)

See also Category: 1506 births.

Deaths

• May 4 - Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
• May 20 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451)
• August - Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (b. c. 1445)
• August 19 - King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (b. 1461)
• September 13 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1432)
• September 25 - King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)

See also Category: 1506 deaths.