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 ).

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* 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 – 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.

* 1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.

* 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.

** Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar ( b. 1501 )

Yi Hwang ( 1501 – 1570 ) is one of the two most prominent Korean Confucian scholars of the Joseon Dynasty, the other being his younger contemporary Yi I ( Yulgok ).

Toe-gye Yi Hwang ( 1501 – 70 ), one of the most prominent of all Korean scholars, came from Andong.

Eric Ives, a British historian and legal expert, advocates the 1501 date, while Retha Warnicke, an American scholar who has also written a biography of Anne, prefers 1507.

Constantine Lascaris ( 1434 – 15 August 1501 ) was a Greek scholar and grammarian, one of the promoters of the revival of Greek learning in the Italian peninsula, born at Constantinople.

The Italian Renaissance scholar Geralomo Cardano ( 1501 – 1575 ) considered him one of the twelve greatest minds of the Middle Ages.

John Doget ( died 1501 ) was an English diplomat, scholar and Renaissance humanist.

After studies in Kraków ( 1493 – 95 ) and Tübingen ( until 1499 ) he spent some time as a travelling scholar ( in 1501, he was in Lyon ).

* February 9 – Ali-Shir Nava ' i, politician and poet ( d. 1501 )

* February 6 – Džore Držić, poet and dramatist ( d. 1501 )

Poet and literary theorist Pietro Bembo edited an edition of Petrarch, the great 14th century poet, in 1501, and later published his theories on how contemporary poets could attain excellence by imitating Petrarch, and by being carefully attentive to the exact sounds of words, as well as their positioning within lines.

Throughout its history, the university has benefited from the presence of many learned men and distinguished scientists who wrote celebrated works and made important discoveries e. g. the mathematician Girolamo Cardano ( born in Pavia, 1501 – 76 ), the physicist Alessandro Volta ( Pavia chair of natural philosophy 1769-1804 ), the poet Ugo Foscolo ( chair of Italian eloquence 1809-10 ), and the physician Camillo Golgi ( at Pavia from 1861 ).

Garcilaso de la Vega ( c. 1501 – October 14, 1536 ) was a Spanish soldier and poet.

# Christof ( b. and d. Dresden, 27 May 1501 ).

* 1501 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician ( d. 1576 )

** Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset ( d. 1501 )

** Anne Boleyn, Second Queen of Henry VIII of England ( born this year or 1501 ; d. 1536 )

** Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer ( d. 1501 )

* May 29 – John VI of Cornwall ( d. 1501 )

* July 26 – Sigismund of Bavaria ( d. 1501 )

** Margaret of Thuringia, wife of the Elector of Brandenburg ( d. 1501 )

Among the important early Muslim scholars who made valuable contributions to economic theory are Abu Yusuf ( d. 798 ), Al-Mawardi ( d. 1058 ), Ibn Hazm ( d. 1064 ), Al-Sarakhsi ( d. 1090 ), Al-Tusi ( d. 1093 ), Al-Ghazali ( d. 1111 ), Al-Dimashqi ( d. after 1175 ), Ibn Rushd ( d. 1187 ), Ibn Taymiyyah ( d. 1328 ), Ibn al-Ukhuwwah ( d. 1329 ), Ibn al-Qayyim ( d. 1350 ), Al-Shatibi ( d. 1388 ), Ibn Khaldun ( d. 1406 ), Al-Maqrizi ( d. 1442 ), Al-Dawwani ( d. 1501 ), and Shah Waliyullah ( d. 1762 ).

He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis ( 1502 ), The Sea Monster ( 1498 ), and Saint Eustace ( c. 1501 ), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals.

The last of these wars ended in 1501 with Bayezid II in control of the whole Peloponnese.

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

On 9 June 1501 Basel joined the Swiss Confederation as its eleventh canton.

NGC 1501 is a planetary nebula.

At the age of three, Catherine was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the English throne, and they married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later.

Ten days later, on 14 November 1501, they were married at Old St. Paul's Cathedral.

In May 1501 the latter was created duke of Romagna.

On 24 June 1501 his troops stormed the latter, causing the collapse of Aragonese power in southern Italy.

In 1501, the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand I and Isabella, first granted permission to the colonists of the Caribbean to import African slaves, which began arriving to the island in 1503.

In 1467 Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria resigned and then kept only Bavaria-Dachau as his domain until his death in 1501.

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

Luther lived there as a student from 1501 to 1511 and, as a monk, from 1505 to 1511.

In 1501, the king's son Arthur, having married Catherine of Aragon, died of an illness at the age of 15, leaving his younger son Henry, Duke of York, as his heir.

In 1501, the colony began to import African slaves, believing them more capable of performing the physical labor.

Another early work is a portrait of the emperor Maximilian, drawn in 1501 on a leaf of a sketch-book now in the print-room at Karlsruhe.

Incunable, or sometimes incunabulum ( plural incunables or incunabula, respectively ) is a book, pamphlet, or broadside ( such as the Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474 ) that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe.