Italian]] translation of Herodotus' Histories done for Count Matteo Maria Boiardo and published in Venice, Aldine Press in 1502. Year 1502 (MDII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

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January–June

• January 1 – Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro lvares Cabral, sail into Guanabara Bay, Brazil, mistaking it for the mouth of a river, which they name Rio de Janeiro.
• May 11 – Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain for his fourth and final trip to the 'New World'. He explores Central America, and discovers St. Lucia (possibly),^[1] the Isthmus of Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica.
• May 21 – Portuguese navigator Jo o da Nova discovers the uninhabited island of Saint Helena.

July–December

• August 14 – Christopher Columbus lands at Trujillo and names the country 'Honduras'.
• September 18 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica.
• November 7 – Columbus reaches the coast of Honduras and passes south to Panama.
• December 26 – Cesare Borgia kills Ramiro D'Orco; this incident is referenced in Machiavelli's The Prince
• December 31 – Cesare Borgia (son of Pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino, where he imprisons two potentially treacherous allies, Vitellozzo and Oliveretto; he executes them the next morning.

Date unknown

• The first African slaves brought to the New World arrive at the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic).
• Ivan III of Russia and Me li I Giray of Crimea attack the Grand Duchy of Lithuania without much success.
• Me li I Giray of Crimea destroys Saray, capital of the Big Horde.
• Aztec ruler Auitzotl dies; Moctezuma II is elected emperor.
• 'Newfoundland' gets its name from a letter.
• Wittenberg University is founded.
• In Germany, Peter Henlein of Nuremberg uses iron parts and coiled springs to build a portable timepiece.
• In Italy, Asher L mmlein declares that the Jewish Messiah will arrive in the next 6 months, resulting in the 'year of penance.'
• Ismail I starts to rule.
• The King's School in Macclesfield is founded by Sir John Percyvale.
• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is proceeded to licentiate.
• Wilhelm Bombast moves to Villach with his son, Paracelsus.
• An Italian translation of Herodotus' Histories done for Count Matteo Maria Boiardo is published in Venice.

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Births

• January 7 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
• February 2 – Dami o de G is, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574)
• March 20 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)
• April 25 – Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1574)
• June 6 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
• September 13 – John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)
• date unknown
  • St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, founder of the Barnabite Order (d. 1539)
  • Takeno Joou, Japanese tea practicer of the Sengoku period (d. 1555)
  • Miguel L pez de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (d. 1572)
  • Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (d. 1578)
  • Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, English courtier (d. 1537)
  • Francesco Spiera, Protestant Italian jurist (d. 1543)
• probable
  • Elizabeth Blount, mistress of King Henry VIII (d. 1540)
  • Cuauht moc, last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitl n and the last "Aztec Emperor" (d. 1525)
  • Stephen Hawes, English poet (d. c. 1521)
  • Blaise de Lasseran-Massenc me, seigneur de Montluc, marshal of France (approximate date; d. 1577)
  • Dante Grey, Hero that killed the devil in Roland Evans' book (d. 1502)

Deaths

• April 2 – Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII of England (b. 1486)
• May 6 – James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the princes in the Tower (executed) (b. c. 1450)
• September 1 – S gi, Buddhist priest and Japanese poet (b. 1421)
• 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 (b. c. 1475)
  • Francesco Laurana, sculptor
  • Octavien de Saint-Gelais, poet and translator (b. 1468)
  • Alvise Vivarini, Italian painter (b. c. 1446)
  • Matthias of Geatland, the Waffle Knight of legend

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