1506

This article is about the year 1506.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1503 1504 1505 – 1506 – 1507 1508 1509

1506 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1506 MDVI
Ab urbe condita	2259
Armenian calendar	955 ԹՎ ՋԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	6256
Bengali calendar	913
Berber calendar	2456
English Regnal year	21 Hen. 7 – 22 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2050
Burmese calendar	868
Byzantine calendar	7014–7015
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4202 or 4142     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4203 or 4143
Coptic calendar	1222–1223
Discordian calendar	2672
Ethiopian calendar	1498–1499
Hebrew calendar	5266–5267
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1562–1563
- Shaka Samvat	1428–1429
- Kali Yuga	4607–4608
Holocene calendar	11506
Igbo calendar	506–507
Iranian calendar	884–885
Islamic calendar	911–912
Japanese calendar	Eishō 3 (永正３年)
Julian calendar	1506 MDVI
Korean calendar	3839
Minguo calendar	406 before ROC 民前406年
Thai solar calendar	2048–2049

January 22: Swiss Guard.

Year 1506 (MDVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 14 – The classical statue of Laocoön and His Sons is unearthed in Rome. On the recommendation of Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo, Pope Julius II purchases it and places it on public display in the Vatican a month later.
• January 22 – The Swiss Guard arrives at the Vatican, to serve as permanent ceremonial and palace guards under Pope Julius II.
• April 18 – Pope Julius II lays the foundation stone of the new (current) St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, replacing the Old St. Peter's Basilica.

July–December

• August 6 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk.
• August 19 – Sigismund I the Old succeeds his brother as king of Poland.
• November 6 – Pope Julius II personally leads his troops into Bologna, retaking the city from the excommunicated tyrant Giovanni II Bentivoglio.

Date unknown

• The Portuguese mariner Tristão da Cunha sights the islands of Tristan da Cunha, naming them after himself.
• In Ming dynasty China, the costs of the courier system are met by a tax in silver on land instead of corvée labor service.
• Duarte Barbosa returns to Lisbon.
• Johannes Trithemius becomes abbot of the monastery of St. Jacob at Würzburg.
• Leonardo da Vinci completes most of his work on the Mona Lisa.

Births

• February – George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (d. 1582)
• February 2 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
• February 15 – Juliana of Stolberg, German countess (d. 1580)
• April 7 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (d. 1552)
• April 13 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)
• July 1 – Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
• August 12 – Franciscus Sonnius, Dutch counter-Reformation theologian (d. 1576)
• October – Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (d. 1566)
• December 4 – Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche, English courtier (d. 1558)
• December 8 – Veit Dietrich, German theologian, writer and reformer (d. 1549)
• date unknown
  • Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (d. 1579)
  • William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (d. 1563)
  • Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai (d. 1560)
• probable
  • Elizabeth Barton, English nun (d. 1534)
  • Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (d. 1543)

Deaths

• May 4 – Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara, Timurid ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
• May 20 – Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1446)
• August 15 – Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (b. c. 1445)
• August 19 – King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (b. 1461)
• September 13 – Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1432)
• September 25 – King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)