1506

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Years: 1503 1504 1505 - 1506 - 1507 1508 1509

Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

• January 21 - Pope Julius II founds the Swiss Guard
• Second outbreak of the sweating sickness in England
• Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa.
• Hernán Cortés, conquistador, arrives in the New World at Santo Domingo in Hispaniola, age 22.
• The statue Laocoön and his Sons is discovered in Rome.

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
• 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

Deaths

• May 4 - Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat
• May 20 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (born 1451)
• September 13 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (born 1431)
• September 25 - King Philip I of Castile (born 1478)
• Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer
• King Alexander of Poland (born 1461)