According to Annemarie Schimmel, the tendency among Shia authors to include leading mystical poets such as Rumi and Attar among their own ranks, became stronger after the introduction of Twelver Shia as the state religion in the Safavid Empire in 1501.

During 1501 Naples became under direct rule from France at the time of Louis XII, as Neapolitan king Frederick was taken as a prisoner to France ; this lasted only four years.

# Catherine of Aragon ( 1501 – 1502 ) — became dowager princess when her first husband, Arthur, died as Prince.

On 5 July 1501, he became a doctor of sacred theology and 10 days later was elected Vice-Chancellor of the University.

Born twenty-three years into his parents ' marriage, Giovanni had two much older brothers, both of whom outlived him: Count Galeotto I ( 1442 – 1499 ) continued the dynasty, while Antonio ( 1444 – 1501 ) became a general in the Imperial army.

Schaffhausen became a full member of the Old Swiss Confederacy in 1501.

According to Annemarie Schimmel, the tendency among Shia authors to include leading mystical poets such as Rumi and Attar among their own ranks, became stronger after the introduction of Twelver Shia as the state religion in the Safavid Empire in 1501.

Schaffhausen became a full member of the Old Swiss Confederation in 1501.

With the adoption of large-scale printing after the end of the era of incunabula ( or books printed prior to 1501 ), Italian Humanism spread northward to France, Germany, Holland and England, where it became associated with the Protestant Reformation.

She arranged the marriage of her daughter, Claude, to Charles of Luxembourg in 1501, to reinforce the Franco-Spanish alliance and ensure French success in the Italian Wars ; however, Louis broke off the marriage when it became likely that Anne would not produce a male heir.

The western portion was given to Basel, which became a canton of Switzerland in 1501.

There is evidence that he moved from Genoa to Barletta in 1501, where he became a servant of King Frederick of Naples, leaving in 1503 for Venice, where he rejoined his father Dom Isaac.

He became part of the court of Philip the Handsome in 1494, but didn't accompany Philip on his first voyage to Spain in 1501 – 1503.

On August 10, 1501, it became the twelfth member of the Confederacy.

In 1501 he became canon of the church of Notre-Dame in Valenciennes, and he died there on 23 August 1507.

In 1501 Charles de la Trémoille, by his marriage with Louise de Coëtivy, became baron of Royan.

Andrew Forman ( c. 1465 – 11 March 1521 ) was a Scottish diplomat and prelate who became Bishop of Moray in 1501, Archbishop of Bourges in France, in 1513, Archbishop of St Andrews in 1514 as well as the headship of several monasteries.

Pellikan became a priest in 1501 and continued to serve his order at Rouffach, Pforzheim, and Basel until 1526.

Following the fire Henry VII had a palace built there and in 1501 he named it Richmond Palace in recognition of his earldom and the ancestral home of Richmond Castle in Yorkshire.

* 1501 ( Bunki 1 ): The former-Shogun Yoshimura was exiled ; and he retired to Suruga province, and he lived in exile in the home of the daimyo of that han.

Organists who worked at the cathedral include Henry Bredemers ( 1493 – 1501 ), who went on to become a teacher to Philip the Handsome's children, and the renowned English composer John Bull ( 1615 – 1628 ), who fled to Flanders from his home country escaping justice.

* 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.

Oldřich of Rožmberk would sell the town almost immediately after the execution but it would again become property of the family in 1501.

In 1501 Wolgemut was employed to decorate the town hall at Goslar with a large series of paintings ; some on the ceiling are on panel, and others on the walls are painted thinly in tempera on canvas.

He was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania on the death of his father ( 1492 ), and King of Poland on the death of his brother John I Albert ( 1501 ).

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.

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 ).

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

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.

In May 1501 the latter was created duke of Romagna.

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

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

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.

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.

In 1501, Rodrigo de Bastidas was the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama sailing along the eastern coast.

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.

* Catherine of Aragon 2 October 1501: arrived and was escorted to London for her marriage to Henry VIII of England

German physician Leonhart Fuchs ( 1501 – 1566 ) was one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels ( 1489 -

Year 1501 ( MDI ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Sigismund of Bavaria ( 26 July 1439 – 1 February 1501 ) was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty.

( 1501 – 19 May 1536 ) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right.

However her birth was most likely sometime between 1501 and 1507.

He left Tübingen in 1501 on account of the plague and after a year at Cologne finally settled at Freiburg University, at first as a student of theology and law and later as a successful teacher where he was mentor to the prominent Anabaptist leader of Waldshut and Nikolsburg, Balthasar Hubmaier, and later retaining this relationship during their move to the University of Ingolstadt.

( It was famously during one of these stops, in 1501, where the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci began to construct his " New World " hypothesis about America.

It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501 ; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain.

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.