1506

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s
Years:	1503 1504 1505 – 1506 – 1507 1508 1509

1506 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1506 (MDVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1506

January 22 – The Swiss Guard arrives at the Vatican, to serve as permanent ceremonial and palace guards under Pope Julius II.
April 18 – Pope Julius II lays the foundation stone of the new (current) St. Peter's Basilica, replacing the Old Saint Peter's Basilica.

The Portuguese mariner Tristão da Cunha sights the islands of Tristan da Cunha, naming the larger one with his own name.
In Ming Dynasty China, the local costs of the courier system are met by a tax in silver assessed by the property of land instead of by corvée labor service.
Pope Julius II personally leads papal troops against the French invaders of Italy.
Duarte Barbosa returns to Lisbon.

February – George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (d. 1582)
February 2 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
April 7 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (d. 1552)
April 13 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)
July 1 – Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
October – Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (d. 1566)
date unknown
- Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (d. 1579)
- William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (d. 1563)
- Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai (d. 1560)
probable
- Elizabeth Barton, English nun (d. 1534)
- Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (d. 1543)

See also Category: 1506 births.

See also Category: 1506 deaths.