Decades: 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years: 1501 1502 1503 1504 1505 - 1506 - 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511
Events Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa Births April 7: Francis Xavier, Jesuit Saint Deaths May 20 - Christopher Columbus explorer, sailor, Catholic Alexander King of Poland, grand-duke of Lithuania, fourth son of Casimir IV. Heads of states Navarre - John of Albret King of Navarre (1484-1516)\n