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This page relates to the year 1502 Calendrier Julien.

Events

January 1st: Discovered site of Rio de Janeiro by Amerigo Vespucci.
April 15th: Nicolás de Ovando, charged to supervise Francisco de Bobadilla relieves it and replaces it like viceroy of the Indies (fine in 1509). Bobadilla dies during its return voyage.
May 9th: Beginning of the fourth voyage of Christophe Colomb which skirts the littoral of the Central America (fine in 1504).

Started from Cadiz the May 9th, it doubles the Martinique (June 15th), skirts the coast of the Central America, the Honduras to the Golfe of Darién. He thinks that Honduras is the Indo-China. He manages with difficulty to regain Cuba (1503), then fails himself the Jamaica (1504). Helped by the governor of Hispaniola Ovando, Colomb returns to Spain the November 7th 1504.

June: The Portuguese Miguel Corte-Real approaches with Newfoundland and gains the gulf of the Saint Laurent.

Beginning of the reign of Moctezuma II (Montezuma II), Aztec king (fine in 1520).
Nicolás de Ovando is activated as well with the “colonization” of Haiti as in 1507 it will count nothing any more but 60 000 natives, others having died of disease, in the forced labors or during the repression of the revolts.
Ten seven missionaries Franciscain S are sent in America.

Vasco de Gama makes stopover with Sofala. He hears of the kingdom of Monomotapa. He bases counters on the African coasts (Sofala, Mozambique).
Voyage of humanistic the Pierre Martyr of Anghiera, sent in Egypt and to the Sudan by the Kings Catholiques.

February 12th: Beginning of the second voyage of Vasco de Gama towards the India (fine in 1503).
September 13rd: Pedro Alvares Cabral arrives at Calicut. It signs a treaty for Portugal with the rajah of Cochin. The Portuguese open a counter of trade to Cochin (Kuchi Bandar) in India.
October 30th: Vasco de Gama arrives at Calicut. It imposes a gold tribute to the Qiloa sultan, burns a competitor ship with its cargo and its crew, makes hang tens of fishermen of Calicut. Winner, it sets out again and leaves on the spot five ships.

Beginning of the reign of Ismail Ier, Persian shah of , creator of the dynasty Séfévides (fine in 1524).

Chah Ismaïl is wire of Kurdish Haydar and the girl of Uzun Hassan. His/her father and falsified to him the document concerning with the sheik Safi AD-DIN (1252 - 1334) their alleged ancestor. This one would result from the race of `Ali and going down from the Sassanides.

Victoire of Bayazid II on the Venetian ones which must pay tribute to preserve their commercial privileges.
a peace treaty is signed between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire.

February 12th: royal edict ordering the expulsion of Spain not converted Moors (moriscos). Those which resist must be exiled and are established especially in North Africa ( Andalous or Tagarins ).

April 2nd: Died of Arthur, oldest son of Henri VII Tudor. His/her brother Henri becomes heir to the throne of England.

July: Beginning of the hostilities in Italy of the South between French and Spaniards.
July - September: Stay of Louis XII in Italy.
December 31st: César Borgia occupies the duchy of Urbino. It makes massacre the barons of the family of the Orsini to Senigallia.

Convocation of the general diet of the five areas (High-Austria, Low-Austria, Styrie, Carinthie, Carniole) with Wiener Neustadt, which leads to a bringing together.
Maximilien of Austria authorizes the coding of the habits (1502-1514) to the detriment of the Roman law.
Rising of the peasants ( Bundschuh ) to the Wurtemberg.
Fine of the Horde of Gold. The khan of the Crimea, Mengli Girey Ier, pushed by Moscow, takes and destroys Saray, the capital of the Gold Horde.

Spain: Laws imposing obtaining one prior approval on the impression near the inquisiteurs (1502, 1558, 1562).
humanistic the Pietro Bonomo becomes bishop of Trieste.
the Venetian printer Ottaviano Petrucci is the first to print a musical collection, Harmonice Musices Odhecaton . It also publishes Italian songs.

Construction of the monastery of Jeronimos to Belem (Portugal). Started with Boitac (1514-1517), it will be completed only 70 years later.
1502 - 1509: Construction of the Castle of Gaillon.
Sansovino : Baptism of Christ .
Johannes Cuspinian and its wife (1502), the Crucifixion (1503), fabrics of Lucas Cranach Old the.
Stories of saint Georges, holy Gérome and holy Tryphon (1502 - 1507), cycle of paintings of Vittore Carpaccio.

Enlarging and work of restoration of the prohibited Quoted in Beijing (Beijing).

Léonard de Vinci is engaged with the service of César Borgia, duke of Romagna and general-in-chief of the armies of the pope Alexandre VI, his father. Léonard supervises work of the fortresses in the ecclesiastical territories of the center of the Italy.
Planisphere of Cantino, recopied by an Italian agent according to a Portuguese original. The representation of the Africa is exact.

Plus from forty firms florentines is present at Lyon, which imports silks and silk trade of Italy, metals and fabrics of Germany, cloths of England; export the Textile and French hardware; work the delivers and the Soie.
the Turkish fleet in the Western Mediterranean can engage more than 200 galères (150 for Venice).

Ahuitzotl, Aztec king.
Olivier Maillard, with Toulouse, franciscain of Breton origin celebrates for its sermons.
Octavien of Saint-Froze, bishop of Angouleme, writer and poet courteous (born in 1468).

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