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.

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.

* 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.

* 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.

In 1501, Maximilian fell from his horse, an accident that badly injured his leg and caused him pain for the rest of his life.

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

However, during the next rebellion against the Danes in 1501, he again took office as regent, leading the Swedish struggle for independence until his death.

By far the most fruitful period of his life for publishing music was the period between 1501 and 1509, during which he published the three volumes of chansons ( the Odhecaton being the first ), 16 books of masses, five books of motets, 11 anthologies of frottole and six books of music for lute.

In 1501 Prince Arthur, ( son of Henry VII and brother to Henry VIII ) with his bride Catherine of Aragon, lived here for a short time before his early death of an infection from which his wife recovered.

The revolt lasted until early 1501, giving the Castilian authorities an excuse to void the terms of the Treaty for Muslims.

He also renovated the chapel royal, one of two churches within the castle at this time, and in 1501 received approval from the Pope for the establishment of a college of priests.

He also worked outside of his mother-country, namely on the Certosa of Pavia and in Prato, where in 1503 he completed the Tabernacle of the Christmas Song, now in the City Museum ; in 1501 Lippi realized the Mystic Wedding of St. Catherine for the Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna.

Both while he was alive and after his death ( the first edition of his works, for the most part elaborate sermons, was printed at Lyon in 1501 ), Bernardino's legacy was far from benign: of fanatical moralizing temperament, he preached fiery, intransigent sermons against many classes of people.

Mary's date of birth is again generally accepted as being c. 1500 but there is some disagreement as to Anne's date of birth with arguments for 1501 and others for 1507.

In 1501 he succeeded Sir John Kendal as Grand Prior in England, taking responsibility for all their property in England.

Douglas today is remembered most for his literary legacy produced during the years 1501 – 1513.

Pope Alexander VI issued a bull in 1501 against the unlicensed printing of books and in 1559 the Index Expurgatorius, or List of Prohibited Books, was issued for the first time.

The earliest German privilege of which there is trustworthy record was issued in 1501 by the Aulic Council to an association entitled the Sodalitas Rhenana Celtica, for the publication of an edition of the dramas of Hroswitha of Gandersheim, which had been prepared for the press by Konrad Keltes.

The gimbal suspension used for mounting compasses and the like is sometimes called a Cardan suspension after Italian mathematician and physician Gerolamo Cardano ( 1501 – 1576 ) who described it in detail.

For centuries, scholars have had to depend primarily on the three best witnesses to this lost manuscript: a copy made in 1501 by Jacopo Sannazaro ( identified by the siglum V, for Vienna ); another copy made by Ioannes Andreas ( identified by the siglum R, for Rome ); and the editio princeps of Johannes Baptista Pius ( Bologna, 1520 ).