1506
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1506 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- January 21—Pope Julius II founded Swiss Guard to serve as bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards, which they continue to do until the present day.
Births
- February 2 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
- April 7 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (died 1552)
- April 13 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (died 1546)
- July 1 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (died 1526)
- Elizabeth Barton, English nun (died 1534)
- George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (died 1582)
- Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet
- Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (died 1543)
- Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (died 1566)
- Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (died 1579)
- William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (died 1563)
- Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai
Deaths
- May 4 - Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat
- May 20 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (born 1451)
- September 13 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver
- September 25 - King Philip I of Castile (born 1478)
- Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer
- King Alexander of Poland (born 1461)
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