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

In 1502, Queen Isabella I declared conversion to Catholicism compulsory within the Kingdom of Castile.

For example, the timeline indicates that Moonwood the Hare lived around the year 570 ( mentioned in the Last Battle ), that the White Witch Jadis returns to Narnia around year 898 ( corresponding roughly with her hundred-year reign ), that King Ram of Archenland succeeds Cor in 1050 ( as stated, without the year in the Horse and His Boy ), and that Queen Swanwhite lived around the year 1502 ( also mentioned in the Last Battle ).

The flag of Gibraltar is an elongated banner of the coat of arms of Gibraltar, granted by Royal Warrant Queen Isabella I of Castile on 10 July 1502.

She ascended the Castilian throne as Princess of Asturias in 1502 and succeeded her mother as Queen regnant of Castile in 1504.

In 1502, Queen Isabella rescinded official toleration of Islam in all of the Kingdom of Castile, although the Kingdom of Aragon continued to tolerate its large Muslim population.

The Coat of arms of Gibraltar | arms granted to the city of Gibraltar by a Royal Warrant passed in Toledo, Spain | Toledo on 10 July 1502 by 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 ".

The last titular Byzantine Emperor, Andreas Palaiologos, sold his titles and royal and imperial rights to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile before his death in 1502.

He married towards the end of 1485 an intimate friend of queen Isabella I of Spain, ( whence probably his preferment ), Isabel de Bobadilla y Peñalosa, deceased Madrid 1531, the daughter of Francisco de Bobadilla, probably deceased on the Atlantic Ocean, 1502, Governor since 21 May 1499, of the Island " La Española ", now divided in two parts: Haiti and the Republic of Santo Domingo and María, being the niece of powerful family of the Marchioness of Moya, province of Cuenca, and Marchioness of Peñalosa, Beatriz Fernández de Bobadilla, deceased at Madrid on 10 September 1511, married to Royal Accountant from Cuenca, Andrés de Cabrera, deceased also at Madrid, 4 October 1511, some 3 weeks later.

Writing of the " intermezzi " at the wedding of Lucrezia Borgia in 1502, Isabella d ' Este said that they were more interesting than the boring commedia, " a remark destined to be often repeated ".

The Ladinos were the descendants of the Muslim Moorish population that converted to Christianity under threat of exile from Ferdinand and Isabella in 1502.

In 1502 the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, granted permission to the colonists of the Caribbean to import African slaves.

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

She then married Alfonso I d ' Este, Duke of Ferrara in early 1502 in Ferrara.

John, the eldest son of King Manuel I, was born in Lisbon on 6 June 1502.

In 1502, Philip, Joanna and a large part of the Burgundian court traveled to Spain for Joanna to receive fealty from the Cortes of Castile as Princess of Asturias, heiress to the Castilian throne, a journey chronicled in great detail by Antoon I van Lalaing ().

In 1502, Philip, Joanna and a large part of the Burgundian court travelled to Spain to receive fealty from the Cortes of Castile as king, a journey chronicled in intense detail by Antoon I van Lalaing (), the future Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland.

The Arg was built during the reign of Tahmasp I ( r. 1524-1576 ) of the Safavid dynasty ( 1502 – 1736 ), and was later renovated by Karim Khan Zand ( r. 1750-1779 ).

Ismail I ( July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524 ), known in Persian as Shāh Ismāʿil (; full name: Abū l-Muzaffar bin Haydar as-Safavī ), was a Shah of Iran ( 1502 ) and the founder of the Safavid dynasty which survived until 1736.

Born in Ardabil in Northwestern Iran, he reigned as Shah Ismail I of Iran from 1502 to 1524.

The passage of King Manuel through Vila do Conde, during a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, in 1502, helped to develop some of the important infrastructures in the city: the Matriz Church, Praça Nova and municipal buildings, along with new arterials, were begun under the reign of Manuel I.

The Moriscos of southern Spain had been forcibly converted to Christianity in 1502, but under the rule of Charles I they had been able to obtain a degree of tolerance from their Christian rulers.

Bakhchysarai, first mentioned 1502, was established as the new khan's residence by the Crimean Khan Sahib I Giray in 1532.

In 1502 Meñli I Giray defeated the last khan of the Great Horde, which put an end to the Horde's claims on Crimea.

Timur sacked New Sarai around 1395, and Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate sacked New Sarai around 1502.

The village became a town 72 years after its foundation, on 1 July 1502, after a royal foral ( charter ) was granted by King Manuel I.

Started under the great castle-builder Edward I, it was completed during the reign of Edward II ( 1307 – 1327 ) and demolished in 1502.

* Antoine I. de Vergy 1502 – 1541

In 1502 Pope Alexander VI took it away from the dominion of the Bishop of Bologna and made it part of the dowry of his daughter Lucrezia Borgia, betrothed to Duke Alfonso I d ' Este and was later returned to the Papal States in 1598.

When, in 1502, the Duke and Duchess left Burgundy for Castile, where they were to be proclaimed heirs, they left the children in the care of Margaret, who already took a great deal of personal responsibility for them.

In 1502, violating the 1492 peace treaty Ferdinand II of Aragon forced all Muslims in Castile and Aragon to convert to Catholicism or be expelled.

From 1502, violating the 1492 peace treaty, Ferdinand and later Phillip II forced all Muslims in Castile and Aragon to convert or be expelled.

From 1502 through 1518, the Spanish government systematically forced Ladinos to leave the Kingdom of Castile.

However, it was not until 1884 that Spain refounded formally the watering place as Villa Cisneros, in the settlement dated in 1502 by papal bull.

She married twice in the year 1518 with a Duke of Medina Sidonia, first with Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 5th Duke of Medina Sidonia, deceased childless, 1548, formally declared " mentecato ", ( out of his mind, unfit to reason properly ), and then again, in the same year 1518 with the 5th Duke brother, Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 6th Duke of Medina Sidonia, ( 24 March 1502, + Sanlúcar de Barrameda, province of Cádiz, Spain, 26 November 1558 ).

During the reign of the Safavids ( 1502 – 1794 ), they proclaimed Shi ' a Islam the state religion.

In June 1502 he set out for Marche, where he was able to capture Urbino and Camerino by treason.

The interest in Etruscan antiquities and the mysterious Etruscan language found its modern origin in a book by a Dominican friar, Annio da Viterbo ( d. 1502 ), the cabalist and orientalist, now remembered mainly for literary forgeries.

In 1502, Leonardo produced a drawing of a single span bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Constantinople.

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

Henry VII came to peace with James IV in 1502, paving the way for the marriage of his daughter Margaret.

Italian language | Italian translation of Herodotus ' Histories done for Count Matteo Maria Boiardo and published in Venice, Aldine Press in 1502.

In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, " being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality " to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral.

* 1502 — Miguel Corte-Real set out for New England in search of his brother, Gaspar.

There he lectured on the works of classical writers and in 1502 founded the Collegium Poetarum, a college for poets.

When that chapel was demolished in about 1502 to make way for the Henry VII Lady Chapel, Anne's coffin was moved to a vault under the Abbey of the Minoresses, run by nuns of the Order of Poor Ladies.

In 1502, Isaac returned to Italy, going to Florence to make arrangements with the hospital Santa Maria Nuova ; payments were made to the hospital in return for health and food provisions.

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.

Nonius is the Latin name of the Portuguese astronomer and mathematician Pedro Nunes ( 1502 – 1578 ) who in 1542 invented a related but different system for taking fine measurements on the astrolabe that was a precursor to the vernier.

The village is linked with the family of Sir James Tyrell who was supposedly responsible for murdering the Princes in the Tower under Richard III and was executed by order of Henry VII in 1502 for treason.

A long bridge, which is a smaller scale recreation of a bridge that Leonardo da Vinci proposed in 1502 for the crossing of the Golden Horn is located in the municipality.

* Bunki 2, in the 7th month ( 1502 ): Minamoto Yoshitane was elevated to the 2nd tier of the 4th class of kuge officials ; and he expressed thanks to the emperor for that honor.

Rodrigo de Santaello, archdeacon of the cathedral and commonly known as Maese Rodrigo, began the construction of a building for a university in 1472 ; in 1502 the Catholic Monarchs published the royal decree creating the university, and in 1505 Julius II granted the Bull of authorization ; in 1509 the college of Maese Rodrigo was finally installed in its own building, under the name of Santa María de Jesús, but its courses were not opened until 1516.

Saint Helena had been discovered by the Portuguese João da Nova on 21 May 1502, and with its abundance of fresh water and fat, it became a regular port of call for Portuguese ships en route between the East Indies and Europe via the Cape of Good Hope.

Landsknecht Paul Dolstein wrote of the siege of Älfsborg in July 1502, fighting for the King of Denmark: " We were 1800 Germans, and we were attacked by 15000 Swedish farmers ... we struck most of them dead ".

In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci produced a drawing of a single-span bridge over the Horn as part of a civil engineering project for Sultan Bayezid II.