Information about 1502
| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1499 1500 1501 - 1502 - 1503 1504 1505 |
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Events of 1502
January - June
- January 1 - Portuguese explorers lead by Pedro Álvares Cabral sailed into Guanabara Bay, Brazil and mistook it for the mouth of a river which they named Rio de Janeiro.
- May 11 - Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain for his fourth and final trip to the "New World". He explored Central America, and discovered St. Lucia, the Isthmus of Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica.
- May 21 - Portuguese navigator João da Nova discovers island of Saint Helena.
July - December
- September 18 - Christopher Columbus landed at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage.
- November 7 - Columbus reached the coast of Honduras and passed south to Panama.
- December 31 - Cesare Borgia (son of Pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino.
- December 31 - Cesare Borgia imprisons two potentially treacherous allies, Vitelozzo and Oliveretto - he executes them the next morning.
Undated
- First African slaves brought to the New World arrived at the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic).
- Ivan III of Russia and Meñli I Giray of Crimea attack Grand Duchy of Lithuania without much success.
- Meñli I Giray of Crimea destroys Saray, capital of Big Horde.
- Aztec ruler Auitzotl dies; Moctezuma II elected emperor.
- "Newfoundland" gets its name from a letter.
- Christopher Columbus lands at Trujillo and named the mainland "Honduras".
- Wittenberg University is founded.
- In Germany, Peter Henlein of Nuremberg used iron parts and coiled springs to build a portable timepiece.
- In Italy, Asher Lämmlein declares the Jewish Messiah would arrive in the next six months, resulting in the "year of penance."
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1502 MDII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2255 |
| Armenian calendar | 951 ԹՎ ՋԾԱ |
| Bah' calendar | -342 – -341 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2046 |
| Chinese calendar | 4138/4198-intercalary 7-20 (辛酉年閏七月二十日) — to — 4139/4199-6-30(壬戌年六月三十日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1218 – 1219 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1494 – 1495 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5262 – 5263 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1557 – 1558 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1424 – 1425 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4603 – 4604 |
| Holocene calendar | 11502 |
| Iranian calendar | 880 – 881 |
| Islamic calendar | 907 – 908 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunki 0 (文亀0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2162 (皇紀2162年) |
| Julian calendar | 1547 |
| Korean calendar | 3835 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2045 |
- January 7 - Pope Gregory XIII (died 1585)
- February 2 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574)
- March 20 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)
- April 25 - Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (died 1574)
- June 6 - King John III of Portugal (died 1557)
- September 13 - John Leland, English antiquarian (died 1552)
- date unknown
- St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (died 1539)
- Takeno Joou, Japanese tea practicer of Sengoku period (died 1555)
- Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (died 1572)
- Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (died 1578)
- Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English courtier (died 1537)
- Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (died 1543)
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- Elizabeth Blount, mistress of King Henry VIII; died 1540)
- Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and the last "Aztec Emperor" (died 1525)
- Stephen Hawes, English poet (died c.1521)
- Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc, marshal of France (approximate date; died 1577)
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Deaths
- April 2 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII of England (born 1486)
- May 6 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the princes in the Tower (executed) (born c1540)
- November 13 - Annio da Viterbo, Dominican friar and scholar
- December 31 - Vitellozzo Vitelli, condottiero
- date unknown
- Auitzotl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan
- Margaret Drummond, mistress of James IV of Scotland (born c. 1475)
- Francesco Laurana, sculptor
- Octavien de Saint-Gelais, poet and translator (born 1468)
- Sogi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (born 1421)
- Alvise Vivarini, Italian painter (born c. 1446)
- Matthias of Geatland, the Waffle Knight of legend.
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