Editing 1506

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[[File:Massacre de lisboa.jpg|thumb|250px|April 19: Lisbon Massacre kills thousands of Jews in Portugal over three days.]]
[[File:SwissGuardsatPrefettura.jpg|thumb|250px|[[January 22]]: [[Swiss Guard]] arrives to protect the Vatican, remains unchanged 500 years later.]]
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Year '''1506''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDVI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 14]] &ndash; The [[Classical antiquity|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 Museums|Vatican]] a month later.
* [[January 22]] &ndash; The [[Swiss Guard]] arrives at the [[Vatican City|Vatican]], to serve as permanent ceremonial and palace guards under [[Pope Julius II]].
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Henry VIII|Henry, Prince of Wales]] is made a [[Knight of the Golden Fleece]] by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. 
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Iye Roy Mackay, 10th of Strathnaver|Iye Roy Mackay]], Chief of Scotland's [[Clan Mackay]], records his 1504 grant of six lands in what is now the County [[Sutherland]], and starts a feud with Euphemia II, Countess of Ross.
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Battle of Cannanore]]: Portugal's fleet (commanded by Lourenço de Almeida) defeats the fleet of the Zamorin of Calicut, with hundreds of vessels involved; 3,000 Muslim troops are killed. 
* [[March 30]] &ndash; King [[Vladislaus II of Hungary]] and [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] sign a treaty to arrange the marriage of Vladislaus's daughter and Maximilian's son.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Pope Julius II]] lays the foundation stone of the new (current) [[St. Peter's Basilica]] in Rome, replacing the [[Old St. Peter's Basilica]].
* [[April 19]] &ndash; The [[Lisbon Massacre]] begins in [[Portugal]] with three days of violence, in which thousands of [[Jews]] are tortured and killed by [[Catholics]].
* [[April 30]] &ndash; ''[[Malus Intercursus]]'', a treaty between King [[Henry VII of England]] and Duke [[Philip IV of Burgundy]], is signed. 
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Badi' al-Zaman Mirza]] becomes the new Emir of the [[Timurid Empire]] (now part of Afghanistan) after the death of his father, [[Sultan Husayn Bayqara]], who died after a reign of 37 years.
* [[May 28]] &ndash; Emperor [[Moctezuma II]] of Mexico's Aztec Empire subdues a rebellion in Zozollan, east of Achiutia, then kills the prisoners of war as a sacrifice to the gods.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Mahmud Shah II of Kedah|Mahmud Shah II]] begins a 41-year reign as the [[Kedah Sultanate|Sultan of Kedah]], a Muslim kingdom on the [[Malay Peninsula]], on the death of his father, [[Muhammad Jiwa Zainal Adilin I of Kedah|Adilin I]].
* [[June 27]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Villafáfila]] is signed between Austria and Spain.

=== July&ndash;September === 
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Philip I of Castile|Philip the Fair]], Duke of Burgundy, becomes the ruler of the Spanish Kingdom of Castile with his insane wife [[Joanna of Castile|Joanna]], but reigns for only two months before dying of typhoid. 
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Battle of Kletsk]]: The [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] defeats the [[Tatars]] of the [[Crimean Khanate]].
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Sigismund I the Old]] succeeds his brother as king of Poland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1506 |title=Historical Events for Year 1506 &#124; OnThisDay.com |website=Historyorb.com |access-date=2016-06-28}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] &ndash; In Korea,  [[Yeonsangun of Joseon|Emperor Yonsangun]], known for being a tyrant, is deposed in the [[Jungjong coup]] by his younger brother, who becomes [[King Jungjong]]. 
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Philip I of Castile|Philip I]], the first Spanish Habsburg King of Castile, dies suddenly from typhoid.

=== October&ndash;December === 
* [[October 6]] &ndash; In [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]], in the Spanish kingdom of  [[Andalusia]], members of the nobility and the general public revolt against the Spanish inquisitor [[Diego Rodriguez de Lucero]] and General Inquisitor [[Diego de Deza]]. The mob liberates the people incarcerated at the Córdoba prison. 
* [[October 7]] &ndash; Pope Julius II issues a bull excommunicating [[Giovanni II Bentivoglio]] from the Roman Catholic Church, who had dominated the Italian city state of [[Bologna]].   
* [[October 15]] &ndash;  [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles II]], the six-year-old son of [[Philip I of Castile|King Philip of Castile]], inherits his father's title of Duke of Burgundy and is proclaimed "Lord of the Netherlands".
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Pope Julius II]] personally leads his troops into [[Bologna]], retaking the city from the excommunicated tyrant [[Giovanni II Bentivoglio]]. 
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Sigismund I the Old]] (Zygmunt Jagiellon), younger brother of the late [[Alexander Jagiellon]], becomes the [[List of Polish monarchs|King of Poland]] and (as Zygimantas II) the [[Grand Duke of Lithuania]]. He will reign for more than 40 years, dying in 1548 at the age of 81.

=== Date unknown ===
* The [[Kingdom of Portugal|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]]''.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:Julianavanstolberg.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Juliana of Stolberg]]]]
* February &ndash; [[George Buchanan]], Scottish humanist scholar (d. [[1582]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Trevor Royle|title=Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDJdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|date=11 November 1984|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-07587-4|pages=47}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[René de Birague]], French cardinal and chancellor (d. [[1583]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Juliana of Stolberg]], German countess (d. [[1580]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja]] (d. [[1555]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Francis Xavier]], Spanish Jesuit saint (d. [[1552]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Cameron|author2=St. Francis Xavier University|title=For the People: A History of St Francis Xavier University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G71TyXuAr-UC&pg=PA387|year=1996|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-1385-3|pages=387}}</ref>
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Peter Faber]], French Jesuit theologian (d. [[1546]])
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia]] (d. [[1526]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Franciscus Sonnius]], Dutch counter-Reformation theologian (d. [[1576]])
* [[October]] &ndash; [[Louis de Blois]], Flemish mystical writer (d. [[1566]])
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche]], English courtier (d. [[1558]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Veit Dietrich]], German theologian, writer and reformer (d. [[1549]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Walther League Messenger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jq3TAAAAMAAJ|year=1934|publisher=International Walther League|page=223}}</ref>
* ''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 (lady-in-waiting)|Margaret Lee]], confidante of Queen [[Anne Boleyn]] (d. [[1543]])

== Deaths ==
[[File:JanRoth cropped.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Johann IV Roth]]]]
[[File:Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio - Ritratto di Cristoforo Colombo (1520).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Christopher Columbus]]]]
[[File:Alaksandar. Аляксандар (1521).jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Alexander Jagiellon]] of Poland]]
[[File:Juan de Flandes, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie - Philipp der Schöne (1478-1506) - GG 3872.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Philip of Castile]]]]
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Johann IV Roth]], German [[Roman Catholic]] bishop (b. [[1426]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara]], Timurid ruler of Herat (b. [[1438]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]], Italian explorer (b. c.[[1451]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Christopher Columbus {{!}} Biography, Voyages, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=21 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Alexander Agricola]], Flemish composer (b. c. [[1445]]) 
* [[August 19]] &ndash; King [[Alexander Jagiellon]] of Poland (b. [[1461]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Andrea Mantegna]], Italian painter and engraver (b. [[1432]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; King [[Philip I of Castile]] (b. [[1478]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu]], Portuguese infante (b. [[1430]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings]], English noble (b. [[1466]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Yeonsangun of Joseon]], king of Korean Joseon Dynasty (b. [[1476]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Engelbert, Count of Nevers]], younger son of John I (b. [[1462]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Mihri Hatun]], Ottoman poet

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