nov 1, 1503 - Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, Bishop of Ostia, is elected the 216th Roman Catholic Pontiff at the end of the year's second papal conclave and takes the papal name Pope Julius II.[22]: 210 Della Rovere had received 15 of 32 votes in the September voting for a plurality, but still short of a majority.[23]: 89 Julius II reigns for a little more than nine years until his death his death in 1513