Editing 1502 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] explorers, led by [[Gonçalo Coelho]], sail into [[Guanabara Bay]], [[Brazil]], mistaking it for the mouth of a river, which they name [[Rio de Janeiro]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ben Box|author2=Mick Day|title=Brazil Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1IUAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Footprint|isbn=978-1-900949-50-7|page=97}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] &ndash; Commissioners from [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] and [[Kingdom of England|England]] meet at [[Richmond Palace]]  in London to finalize an agreement on the marriage between Scotland's [[James IV of Scotland|King James IV]] to the daughter of England's [[Henry VII of England|King Henry VII]], the princess [[Margaret Tudor]], with a dowry of 35,000 [[Pound Scots|Scottish Punnd]]s and an agreement for a "treaty of perpetual peace".<ref>George Goodwin, ''Fatal Rivalry: Floodin, 1513'' (W. W. Norton, 2013) p. 39</ref> The marriage will be completed by proxy on January 25, 1503.
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Isabella I of Castile|Isabella I]] issues an edict outlawing Islam in the [[Crown of Castile]], forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to [[Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain|convert to Christianity]].
* [[February 13]] &ndash; The new Viceroy of the New World, [[Nicolás de Ovando]], departs Spain with a fleet of 30 ships and orders to replace Viceroy [[Francisco de Bobadilla]] at [[Santo Domingo]] on the island of [[Hispaniola]], and arrives in April. 
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] begins preparation for [[Fourth voyage of Columbus|his fourth and final voyage]], with a goal of finding a westward passage in the New World to link the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean.  
* [[March 26]] &ndash; The [[List of earthquakes in Croatia|first recorded earthquake in what is now Croatia]] strikes at [[Medvednica]] with a Mercalli scale intensity estimated at VIII. (2000).<ref>[https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/20003 "Potresi na zagrebačkom području"] ("Earthquakes in Zagreb Area"), by Veselin Simović, ''Građevinar'', journal of the Croatian Association of Civil Engineers (2000) pp. 637–645</ref>