* 1502 – Georg Major, German theologian ( d. 1574 )

The Si-o-se Pol bridge over Zayandeh River is an example of Safavid dynasty ( 1502 – 1722 ) bridge design.

The FDA informed health care professionals that dangerous or even fatal skin reactions ( Stevens – Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis ), that can be caused by carbamazepine therapy, are significantly more common in patients with a particular human leukocyte antigen ( HLA ) allele, HLA-B * 1502.

* 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

* 1502 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher ( d. 1574 )

* 1502 2 January – Garcilaso de la Vega took possession of the town on behalf of the Queen Isabella I of Castile.

* 1502 10 July – By a Royal Warrant passed in Toledo by Isabella I of Castile, Gibraltar was granted its coat of arms: " An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured ".

* Pedro Nunes 1502 – 1578 Portugal

* Hedwig Jagiellon ( 1457 – 1502 ), daughter of the King Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland and Elisabeth Habsburg of Hungary.

* 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

* 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII ( d. 1585 )

# Anna of Brandenburg ( 27 August 1487, Berlin – 3 May 1514, Kiel ), married 10 April 1502 to King Frederick I of Denmark.

* 1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.

* 1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova.

Moctezuma II ( c. 1466 – 29 June 1520 ), also known by a number of variant spellings including Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma and referred to in full by early Nahuatl texts as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin ( Moctezuma the Young ), was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520.

* Francesco di Giorgio Martini ( 1439 – 1502 ), Italian painter, sculptor, architect and military engineer

Moreover, from 1502 to 1503 he witnessed the brutal reality of the state-building methods of Cesare Borgia ( 1475 – 1507 ) and his father Pope Alexander VI, who were then engaged in the process of trying to bring a large part of central Italy under their possession.

Pope Gregory XIII ( 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585 ), born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope from 1572 to 1585.

Sten Sture managed to size power again in 1501 which resulted in a Danish blockade lasting 1502 – 1509 and eventually a short peace.

* 1502 – John Leland, English poet andantiquarian ( d. 1552 )

* 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final voyage.

* 1486 – Arthur, Prince of Wales ( d. 1502 )

* Dionisius ( – 1502 ), Russian painter

* January 30 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher ( b. 1502 )

* November 28 – Georg Major, German Protestant theologian ( b. 1502 )

One of the earliest references to the clavichord in England occurs in the privy-purse expenses of Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII, in an entry dated August 1502:

On 14 August 1502 Columbus landed on the mainland near modern Trujillo.

* August 11 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician ( b. 1502 )

* August 22 – John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland ( b. 1502 )

On 15 August 1502, Isaac wrote his first will which included names of his proprietors, alluding to the fact that he was doing well to care for his wife and property should anything happen to him.

* August 11-Pedro Nunes, Portuguese polymath ( born 1502 )

Pedro Nunes (; Latin, Petrus Nonius ), ( 1502 – August 11, 1578 ) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, from a New Christian ( of Jewish origin ) family.

New editions of the Psalter were with the same type in 1459 ( August 29 ), 1490, 1502 ( Schöffer's last publication ) and 1516.

The second Catholic mass celebrated in continental American territory was carried out on August 14, 1502 in Punta Caxinas, two weeks after the discovery of Honduras by Christopher Columbus.

Among the significant events organised by Burchard as Ceremoniere were: the visit of Don Federigo de Aragon to Rome ( December 1493 to January 1494 ); the coronation of Alfonso II of Naples ( May 1494 ); the reception of Charles VIII of France in Rome ( November 1494 to February 1495 ); the Papal Embassy to the Emperor Maximilian in Milan ( July – November 1496 ); the Proclamation of the Jubilee ( Christmas 1499 ); the visit of Alexander VI to Piombino ( January – March 1502 ); and obsequies of Pope Alexander VI ( August 1503 ).

Prince Arthur died in April 1502 and in August of that year Smyth became Lord President of the Council, giving him full responsibility for the exercise of royal power in Wales.

By August 1502 he was no longer Chancellor of Oxford University.

Between April and August 1502, he commanded a naval fleet sent to help King Hans of Denmark, James IV's uncle, defeat a Swedish rebellion.

On 17 August his expedition made landfall off the Brazilian coast at about 5 ° S. The fleet continued south, reaching Guanabara bay ( 23 ° S ) on New Year's Day 1502, naming it " Rio de Janeiro ".

Christopher Columbus landed in Trujillo on August 14, 1502, during his fourth and final voyage to the Americas.

* September 20 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry VII of England ( d. 1502 )

** Lady Janet Stewart ( 17 July 1502 – 20 February 1562 ).

Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales ( 19 / 20 September 1486 – 2 April 1502 ) was the first son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York.

The island was named São Sebastião Island by Americo Vespuccio, on January 20, 1502.

Pierino Belli ( March 20, 1502, Alba-December 31, 1575, Turin ) was an Italian soldier and jurist.

It is an apparent straight line of more than 20 colorful 5th to 10th magnitude stars over a distance of approximately five moon diameters, and the open cluster NGC 1502 can be found at one end.