1506

Years: 1503 1504 1505 - 1506 - 1507 1508 1509

Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

• Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa
• Hernán Cortés, conquistador, arrives in the New World at Santo Domingo in Hispaniola, age 22.

Births

• April 7: Francis Xavier, Jesuit Saint
• Possibly Lady Margaret Lee, sister of the poet Thomas Wyatt and favourite lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn

Deaths

• May 20 - Christopher Columbus explorer, sailor, Catholic
• Alexander King of Poland, grand-duke of Lithuania, fourth son of Casimir IV.

Heads of states

• Navarre - John of Albret King of Navarre (1484-1516)