1506 Totally Explained

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

Events of 1506

January - June

January 22 - Swiss Guard arrives at the Vatican, to serve as permanent bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards (under Pope Julius II).
April 18 - Pope Julius II laid 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

Laocoön and his Sons by Hagesandros, Polydoros, Athanadoros of Rhodes is discovered. Perhaps the original of 2nd century BC or 1st century BC or a Roman copy of the 1st century AD is now at Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio Clementino, Cortile Ottagono, Rome.

The Portuguese mariner Tristão da Cunha sighted the islands of Tristan da Cunha, naming the larger one with his own name.

Births

February - George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (died 1582)

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)

October - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (died 1566)

date unknown

Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (died 1579)
William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (died 1563)
Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai (died 1560)

probable

Elizabeth Barton, English nun (died 1534)
Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (died 1438)
Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (died 1543)

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Deaths

May 4 - Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat (born 1438)

May 20 - Christopher Columbup, Italian explorer (born 1451)

August - Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (born c1445)

August 19 - King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (born 1461)

September 13 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (born 1432)

September 25 - King Philip I of Castile (born 1478) ť See also .

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