1506 | Political Events
Political Events
The Swedish royal council's military leader Ake Hansson Natt och Dag plunders the Danish provinces of Halland and Skania before being driven off (see 1452; 1507).
Poland's Aleksander I dies at Vilna August 8 at age 45 after a 5-year reign in which he has lost the left bank of the Dnieper to Muscovy. His surviving brother is now 39 and will reign until his own death in 1548 as Sigismund I.
A Florentine militia created by the city's vice-chancellor Niccolo Machiavelli, 37, is the first Italian national army.
Perugia's Baglioni family acknowledges the overlordship of Pope Julius II in Perugia (see 1503).
Castile and León's Felipe I dies suddenly at Burgos September 25 at age 28. His wife, Juana, lapses into profound melancholia and is declared unfit to govern (she will be known as "Juana la loca" and, along with her youngest daughter, Catalina, will be held under close surveillance at Tordesillas until her death in 1555); her father, Ferdinand II of Aragon, becomes regent of Castile, marries Germaine de Foix, niece of France's Louis XII, and will rule Castile and León until 1516 as Ferdinand V.
Chinese bureaucrat Wang Yangming (Wang Yang-Ming), 34, defends a censor who has been imprisoned for attacking a corrupt and powerful eunuch. A secretary to the ministry of war at Beijing (Peking), Wang is beaten with 40 strokes and sent to prison himself for several months; he is then banished to the remote region of Kweichow, where he will serve as head of a dispatch station, live among the aborigines, and often fall ill until he comes to realize suddenly at age 36 that the place to seek the principles of things is not in the things themselves but in one's own mind (see politics, 1510).
Korean rebels overthrow the cruel ruler Yonsangun and will install Chungjong on the throne next year.