German physician Leonhart Fuchs ( 1501 – 1566 ) was one of " the three German fathers of botany ", along with Otto Brunfels ( 1489 – 1534 ) and Hieronymus Bock ( 1498 – 1554 ) ( also called Hieronymus Tragus ).

Science 134: 1501 – 1506

* 1461 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright ( d. 1501 )

* 1501 2 December – Acknowledging the importance of the town, the Catholic Monarchs asked the Duke of Medina Sidonia for the return of Gibraltar to the domains of the crown.

Gerolamo ( or Girolamo, or Geronimo ) Cardano (; ; 24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576 ) was an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler.

* Livia Gonzaga ( 1501 – January 1508 ).

* 1501 – Cho Shik, Korean scholar, politician, educator, and poet ( d. 1572 )

* 1501 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist ( d. 1566 )

* 1501 – Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England ( d. 1559 )

* 1501 – Isabella of Austria ( d. 1526 )

* 1501 – Pope Marcellus II ( d. 1555 )

Michelangelo returned to Florence in 1499 – 1501.

Joachim ( 1505 – 1571 ), the future elector of Brandenburg, was the eldest son and heir of their current claimant of Luxembourg, Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1484 – 1535 ), the eldest son and heir of the late Margaret of Thuringia ( 1449 – 1501 ), Dowager Electress of Brandenburg, herself the eldest daughter and heiress of Anna, Duchess of Luxembourg and William of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia.

* 1501 – Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar ( d. 1570 )

* 1501 – Catherine of Aragon ( later Henry VIII's first wife ) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.

* Celestino Andrés Araúz y Patricia Pizzurno, El Panamá Hispano ( 1501 – 1821 ) Comisión Nacional del V Centenario – Encuentro de Dos Mundos-de España Diario La Prensa de Panamá, Panamá 1991.

Pope Marcellus II ( 6 May 1501 – 1 May 1555 ), born Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi, was Pope from 9 April 1555 to 1 May 1555, succeeding Pope Julius III.

The Banquet of Chestnuts, known more properly as the Ballet of Chestnuts, refers to a fête in Rome, and particularly to a supper held in the Papal Palace by Cardinal Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI on October 30, 1501.

He records the orgy known as the Banquet of Chestnuts held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace on October 30, 1501.

Prestonkirk ), in East Lothian ; and about 1501 was preferred to the deanery or provostship of the collegiate church of St Giles, Edinburgh, which he held with his parochial charges.

It was held on October 30, 1501.

He held the office of mayor four times, in 1501, 1507, 1512 and 1518.

In 1501 James IV founded a new Chapel Royal in Stirling Castle, but from 1504 onwards the deanery was held by successive Bishops of Galloway with the title of Bishop of the Chapel Royal and authority over all the royal palaces within Scotland.

He sold it to the Republic of Venice in 1411, who held it until it was taken by the Ottoman Empire in 1501.

Though enjoined by royal mandate in 1501 for general use within the realm of Scotland, it was probably never widely adopted.

The De expetendis et fugiendis rebus by Giorgio Valla was posthumously printed in 1501 by Aldo Manuzio in Venice.

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo.

João da Nova discovered Ascension in 1501 and Saint Helena in 1502 ; Tristão da Cunha was the first to sight the archipelago still known by his name 1506.

In the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea, one of Cabral's ships discovered Madagascar ( 1501 ), which was partly explored by Tristão da Cunha ( 1507 ); Mauritius was discovered in 1507, Socotra occupied in 1506, and in the same year Lourenço de Almeida visited Ceylon.

On the Asiatic mainland the first trading stations were established by Pedro Álvares Cabral at Cochin and Calicut ( 1501 ); more important were the conquests of Goa ( 1510 ) and Malacca ( 1511 ) by Afonso de Albuquerque, and the acquisition of Diu ( 1535 ) by Martim Afonso de Sousa.

Around 1501, Vasco da Gama married Catarina de Ataíde, daughter of Álvaro de Ataíde, the alcaide-mór of Alvor ( Algarve ), and a prominent nobleman connected by kinship with the powerful Almeida family ( Catarina was a first cousin of D. Francisco de Almeida ).

** 6th bell: Il Vespruccio ( 2nd small one ), cast in the 14th century and again in 1501 by Nicola di Jacopo, weight 1, 000 kg ( 2, 205 lb )

* Thomas Grey, Earl of Huntingdon, Marquess of Dorset and Lord Ferrers de Groby ( 1457 – 20 September 1501 ), married firstly Anne Holland, but she died young without issue ; he married secondly on 18 July 1474, Cecily Bonville, suo jure Baroness Harington and Bonville, by whom he had fourteen children.

Tyrrell was arrested by Henry VII's forces in 1501 for supporting another Yorkist claimant to the throne.

The elder daughter, Claude ( 1499-1524 ), was betrothed by her mother's arrangement to the future Emperor Charles V in 1501.

His edition of Petrarch's Italian Poems, published by Aldus in 1501, and the Terzerime, which Aldus published in 1502, were also influential.

The Neoplatonist work was first printed by Aldus Manutius in 1501, and has often been reprinted.

1501 is preserved by the Werkgroep 1501.

Bahia's capital is the city of Salvador, or more properly, São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, and is located at the junction of the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of All Saints, officially first seen by European sailors in 1501.

The church, of Romanesque origin but with Baroque interiors, houses two works by il Bergognone ( 1501, once attributed to Bernardino Luini's workshop ).

The collegiate chapel established by James IV in 1501 lay between the King's Old Building and the Great Hall, but was further south than the present building.

The bulk of the palace had decayed by 1779 ; but surviving structures include the Wardrobe, Trumpeter's House ( built around 1700 ), and the Gate House, built in 1501.

There is a wooden crucifix by Baccio da Montelupo ( 1501 ) on the front altar.

The northeastern tip of South America, Cape São Roque, to the north of Natal, was first officially visited by European navigators in 1501, in the 1501 – 1502 Portuguese expedition led by Amerigo Vespucci, who named the spot after the saint of the day.