1503

1503 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1503
MDIII
Ab urbe condita2256
Armenian calendar952
ԹՎ ՋԾԲ
Assyrian calendar6253
Balinese saka calendar1424–1425
Bengali calendar909–910
Berber calendar2453
English Regnal year18 Hen. 7 – 19 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar2047
Burmese calendar865
Byzantine calendar7011–7012
Chinese calendar壬戌年 (Water Dog)
4200 or 3993
    — to —
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4201 or 3994
Coptic calendar1219–1220
Discordian calendar2669
Ethiopian calendar1495–1496
Hebrew calendar5263–5264
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1559–1560
 - Shaka Samvat1424–1425
 - Kali Yuga4603–4604
Holocene calendar11503
Igbo calendar503–504
Iranian calendar881–882
Islamic calendar908–909
Japanese calendarBunki 3
(文亀3年)
Javanese calendar1420–1421
Julian calendar1503
MDIII
Korean calendar3836
Minguo calendar409 before ROC
民前409年
Nanakshahi calendar35
Thai solar calendar2045–2046
Tibetan calendarཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Water-Dog)
1629 or 1248 or 476
    — to —
ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Water-Boar)
1630 or 1249 or 477

Year 1503 (MDIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

  • January 20Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive rights to trade with the New World.[1]
  • January 24 – Construction of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey begins in the perpendicular style, the final stage of English Gothic art.[2]
  • February 13 – Challenge of Barletta: Thirteen Italian knights defeat thirteen French knights, near Barletta.[3]
  • February 23 – Third Italian War: Battle of Ruvo – The Spanish defeat the French in Italy.[4]
  • March 15 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and sailors of his Portuguese India Armada become the first Europeans to sight the Seychelles islands as Thomé Lopes notes the discovery of what will later be called Silhouette Island.

April–June

May 10: Columbus at Cayman Islands
May 24: Coronation of Moctezuma II as Aztec Emperor takes place in Tenochtitlan

July–September

  • July 23 – Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moves outside Neptune's orbit, remaining there for 233 years.
  • July 30Saint Helena is first definitively sighted, by ships of Portuguese navigator Estêvão da Gama returning from the East.[15][16][17]
  • August 8 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England, at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland.[18]
  • August 18Pope Alexander VI dies after a reign of 11 years, and the largest gathering of cardinals up to that time— 21 from Italy, 11 from Spain and 7 from France— is called to Rome for a papal conclave, to start in September.
  • August 20 – A previous treaty between Vladislaus II of Hungary and Bayezid II, which was finalized on June 11, goes into effect.[19] The treaty suppresses warfare along the Hungarian-Ottoman border. Stephen III of Moldavia is also included in this treaty, but it preserves his nation's independence on the condition Moldavia pays an annual tribute to the Ottoman Empire.
  • September 22 – Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, Archbishop of Siena, is elected as the new Pope after the voting cardinals cannot decide between Georges d'Amboise of France or Giuliano della Rovere of Italy. Piccolomini takes the name of Pope Pius III but will reign for only 26 days.[20]

October–December

By October: Work on Mona Lisa has begun
  • October – Earliest record of Leonardo da Vinci working on a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, probably the Mona Lisa, in Florence.[21][22]
  • October 1 – Fort Emmanuel is christened at Cochin after Afonso de Albuquerque obtained permission to be able to build it.[23] It is the first European fort in India, in addition to being the first Portuguese fort.
  • October 18Pope Pius III dies less than four weeks after being elected, prompting the calling of the second papal conclave in as many months.[24]: 198–207 
  • October 30Queen Isabella I of Spain issues an edict prohibiting violence against indigenous peoples in the New World.
  • November 1 – Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, Bishop of Ostia, is elected the 216th Roman Catholic Pontiff at the end of the year's second papal conclave and takes the papal name Pope Julius II.[24]: 210  Della Rovere had received 15 of 32 votes in the September voting for a plurality, but still short of a majority.[25]: 89  Julius II reigns for a little more than nine years until his death in 1513.[25]: 91 
  • November 11 – Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny, commander of the defeated French forces and a prisoner of war since his April 21 defeat at the Battle of Seminara, is released from Castel Nuovo in Naples after a truce between France and Spain.[26]
  • November 29 – Pope Julius II, formerly Giuliano della Rovere, adds four new people to the College of Cardinals, including two members of his family, Clemente della Rovere and Galeotto della Rovere.[24]: 219  By the time of his death, Julius will have added 27 cardinals to the Roman Catholic Church, five of them from the della Rovere family.[27]
  • December 29 – Third Italian War: The Battle of Garigliano takes place near Gaeta in Italy. Spanish forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeat a French–Italian mercenary army under Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo; the French forces, who suffer 4,000 casualties, withdraw to Gaeta.

Date unknown

Births

Queen Anne of Bohemia and Hungary
Queen Isabella of Portugal

Deaths

Pope Alexander VI
Peter II, Duke of Bourbon
Pope Pius III
George, Duke of Bavaria

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