Recognised as Date
1 May 1501
- Wednesday
- Q2
- Common year
- Week 18
- Taurus
1 May 1501 falls on a Wednesday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, which did not yet exist at the time. It is day 121 of 365 in 1501, falling in week 18 and quarter 2. Its Unix timestamp is -14,789,865,600.
Calendar position
Day of the weekWednesdayproleptic Gregorian; contemporaries used the Julian calendar and would have named a different day
Day of the month1st
Day of the year121 of 365
Days remaining in the year244
Days elapsed in the year120
ISO week numberWeek 18ISO 8601, weeks start on Monday
Week of the month1st
Occurrence in the month1st Wednesday
MonthMay (month 5 of 12)
QuarterQ2 1501
Year1501
Days in the month31
Leap yearNo, 365 days
This date in other formats
ISO 86011501-05-01
British (D/M/Y)01/05/1501
American (M/D/Y)05/01/1501
Long formWednesday 1st May 1501
RFC 2822Wed, 01 May 1501 00:00:00 GMT
Compact15010501
In wordsthe 1st of May, one thousand, five hundred and one
Julian calendar equivalent21 April 1501the date contemporaries would have written, before the Gregorian calendar existed
This date in other calendars
Hebrew3 Iyyar 5261the Hebrew calendar has been fully algorithmic since the ninth century, so this is exact
Islamic (tabular)2 Shawwal 906 AHthe tabular reckoning; the calendar in religious use begins each month on an actual crescent sighting, so expect a day either way
Persian (arithmetic)10 Ordibehesht 880the arithmetic (Birashk) calendar; the official Solar Hijri calendar takes its new year from the astronomical equinox at Tehran
Rata Die547,984days since 1 January 1 CE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, the pivot every conversion here runs through
Unix time & day counts
Unix timestamp-14,789,865,600seconds since 1 January 1970, midnight UTC
Unix timestamp (ms)-14,789,865,600,000
Relationship to the epoch171,179 days before the Unix epoch
Julian Day Number2,269,409midnight UTC
Days since 1 January 1900-145,612
Days since 1 January 2000-182,136
Relative to today
These values depend on today’s date and change daily.
Today16 September 2026
Days ago191,891 days
In other terms525 years, 134 days and 18 hours
Weeks27413.0 weeks ago
Anniversary this year138 days ago
Years elapsed525 complete years
Seasons & signs
Zodiac signTaurusEarth sign
Chinese zodiac yearRoosterthe animal changes at Chinese New Year, not 1 January
Season (Northern Hemisphere)Springmeteorological seasons, by whole months
Season (Southern Hemisphere)Autumn
Easter Sunday that year14 April 1501
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