Information about 1506
| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1503 1504 1505 - 1506 - 1507 1508 1509 |
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Events of 1506
January - June
- January 22 - Swiss Guard arrives at the Vatican, to serve as permanent bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards (under Pope Julius II).
- April 18 - Pope Julius II laid the foundation stone of the new (Current) St. Peter's Basilica, replacing the Old Saint Peter's Basilica.
July - December
- August 19 - Sigismund I the Old succeeds his brother as King of Poland.
Undated
- Laocoön and his Sons by Hagesandros, Polydoros, Athanadoros of Rhodes is discovered. Perhaps the original of 2nd century BC or 1st century BC or a Roman copy of the 1st century AD is now at Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio Clementino, Cortile Ottagono, Rome.
- The Portuguese mariner Tristão da Cunha sighted the islands of Tristan da Cunha, naming the larger one with his own name.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1506 MDVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2259 |
| Armenian calendar | 955 ԹՎ ՋԾԵ |
| Bah' calendar | -338 – -337 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2050 |
| Chinese calendar | 4142/4202-8-5 (乙丑年八月初五日) — to — 4143/4203-7-14(丙寅年七月十四日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1222 – 1223 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1498 – 1499 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5266 – 5267 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1561 – 1562 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1428 – 1429 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4607 – 4608 |
| Holocene calendar | 11506 |
| Iranian calendar | 884 – 885 |
| Islamic calendar | 912 – 913 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 0 (永正0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2166 (皇紀2166年) |
| Julian calendar | 1551 |
| Korean calendar | 3839 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2049 |
- February - George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (died 1582)
- 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)
- October - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer (died 1566)
- date unknown
- Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (died 1579)
- William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (died 1563)
- Ii Naomori, Japanese samurai (died 1560)
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- Elizabeth Barton, English nun (died 1534)
- Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (died 1438)
- Margaret Lee, confidante of Queen Anne Boleyn (died 1543)
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Deaths
- May 4 - Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat (born 1438)
- May 20 - Christopher Columbup, Italian explorer (born 1451)
- August - Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (born c1445)
- August 19 - King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (born 1461)
- September 13 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (born 1432)
- September 25 - King Philip I of Castile (born 1478)
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- Nicolaus Copernicus began to write De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ("On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres") in 1506 and soon send an abstract called Commentariolus to other scientists interested in the matter.
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- Adal Sultanate - Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din, Sultan (1488 - 1518)
- Ethiopia - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (1494-1508)
- Kongo - João I (1470 - 1509)
- Sennar - Amara Dunqas (1503 - 1533/4)
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- Aztec Empire
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- 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
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Swiss Guards are Swiss mercenary soldiers who have served as bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards at foreign European courts from the late 15th century until the present day (in the form of the Papal Swiss Guard).
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Inno e Marcia Pontificale (Italian)
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Inno e Marcia Pontificale (Italian)
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The Pope (from Latin: papa, father;[1] from Greek πάπας (papas) = father - originally written πάππας (
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