The sinking of Francisco de Bobadilla's Spanish fleet in 1502 was the first recorded instance of a destructive hurricane.

They took with them the symbols and objects of Spanish Gibraltar's history: the council and ecclesiastical records, including the historical documents signed by the Spanish Catholic Monarchs in 1502, granting Gibraltar's coat of arms, and the statue of the Saint Mary the Crowned.

The Spanish returned to western Hispaniola in 1502, establishing a settlement at Yaguana, near modern day Léogane.

The earliest record of Native American and African contact occurred in April 1502, when Spanish colonists transported the first Africans to Hispaniola to serve as slaves.

It was only with the coming to power of the Saadi Dynasty that the sovereignty of Morocco over the western part of the Sahara became complete again: Also, the Spanish established Villa Cisneros in 1502 to extend their empire.

In 1502, on the fourth, and final, expedition to the American continent, Christopher Columbus encountered a large canoe, filled with goods, off the coast of Honduras ; after boarding it, he found cacao beans, axes with heads of copper and of flint, bells, pottery, and cotton garments — it was the first Spanish encounter with the civilizations of Central America.

In 1502 on the coast of present day Colombia, near the Gulf of Urabá, Spanish explorers led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa explored and conquered the area near the Atrato River.

( 1502 – August 20, 1572 ), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo ( The Elder ), was a Spanish conquistador who established one of the first European settlements in the East Indies and the Pacific Islands in 1565.

By 1502, a combined French and Spanish force had seized control of the kingdom ; disagreements about the terms of the partition led to a war between Louis and Ferdinand.

Only this archipelago and the possessions of Santa Cruz de la Mar Pequeña ( 1476 – 1524 ), Melilla ( conquered by Pedro de Estopiñán in 1497 ), Villa Cisneros ( founded in 1502 in current Western Sahara ), Mazalquivir ( 1505 ), Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera ( 1508 ), Oran ( 1509 – 1790 ), Algiers ( 1510 – 1529 ), Bugia ( 1510 – 1554 ), Tripoli ( 1511 – 1551 ), Tunis ( 1535 – 1569 ) and Ceuta ( ceded by Portugal in 1668 ) remained as Spanish territory in Africa.

* Miguel López de Legazpi ( 1502 – 1572 ), Spanish conquistador

Dakhla was founded in 1502 by Spanish settlers during the expansion of their Empire.

Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso ( 1502 – April 10, 1548 ) was a Spanish conquistador and younger paternal half-brother of Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Inca Empire.

When the Spanish arrived in 1502, Costa Rica endured two generations of warfare.

* Gonzalo Pizarro ( 1502 – 1548 ), Spanish conquistador

Inhabited by the Payans Indian, Christopher Columbus landed 30 July 1502, Pedro Moreno landed in 1524, Spanish slaves raids 1516-1526, buccaneering during 16th and 17th century and removal of Indians to Golfo Dulc.

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

The Spanish imported Africans as laborers to the Americas in 1502.

Black colonists were among those who, with Nicolás de Ovando, formed the first Spanish settlement on Hispaniola in 1502.

Various translations followed, into Portuguese ( 1502 ) and Spanish ( 1503 ).

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.

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.

By 1502, combined French and Aragonese forces had seized control of the Kingdom ; disagreements about the terms of the partition led to a war between Louis and Ferdinand.

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

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

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 ".

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

In 1502, Queen Isabella I of Castile formally rescinded toleration of Islam for the entire Kingdom of Castile.

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.

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 ".

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.

In 1502, King Alexander Jagiellon granted a new charter, based on Magdeburg rights to Częstochowa.

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.

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.

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 Pope Julius II granted the Bull of authorization ; this is considered the official founding of the present University of Seville.

In 1549, he joined the naval fleet of the first Portuguese Governor-General Tomé de Sousa ( 1502 – 1579 ), following a request by King D. João III to the Society of Jesus, to start the missionary work of converting the Amerindians, who were heathen in the eyes of the Catholic Church, of building churches and religious seminars, and of educating the colonists.

Europeans first landed on the island in either 1492 or 1502 during Spain's early exploration of the Caribbean.

There were over 173 city-states and kingdoms in the African regions affected by the slave trade between 1502 and 1853, when Brazil became the last Atlantic import nation to outlaw the slave trade.