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| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1499 1500 1501 - 1502 - 1503 1504 1505
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1480s 1490s - 1500s ''' - 1510s 1520s 1530s
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| align="center" | - 16th Century ''' - 17th Century
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1502 was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
Events
Births
- January 7 - Pope Gregory XIII (died 1585 )
- February 2 - Damião De Góis , Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574 )
- March 20 - Pierino Belli , Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575 )
- April 25 - Georg Major , German Lutheran theologian (died 1574 )
- June 6 - King John III Of Portugal (died 1557 )
- September 13 - John Leland , English antiquarian (died 1552 )
- St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria , founder of the Barnabite Order (died 1539 )
- Elizabeth Blount , mistress of King Henry VIII ; died 1540 )
- Cuauhtémoc , last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and the last "Aztec Emperor" (died 1525 )
- Stephen Hawes , English poet (died 1521 )
- Takeno Joou , Japanese tea practicer of Sengoku period (died 1555 )
- Miguel López De Legazpi , Spanish conquistador (died 1572 )
- Blaise De Lasseran-Massencôme, Seigneur De Montluc , marshal of France (approximate date; died 1577 )
- Pedro Nunes , Portuguese mathematician (died 1578 )
- Henry Percy, 6th Earl Of Northumberland , English courtier (died 1537 )
- Francesco Spiera , Protestant Italian jurist (died 1543 )
Deaths
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