Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1497 1498 1499 – 1500 – 1501 1502 1503

1500 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1500 (MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1500 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1500

• January 5 – Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French.
• February 17 – Battle of Hemmingstedt: The Danish army fails to conquer the peasants' republic of Dithmarschen.
• April 22 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil and claims the land for Portugal. He has 13 vessels with him.
• August 10 – Diogo Dias discovered an island they named after St Lawrence after the saint day they had first sighted the island later known as Madagascar
• August – Second Battle of Lepanto: The Turkish fleet of Kemal Reis defeats the Venetians. The Turks proceed to capture Modon and Coron, the "two eyes of the Republic."
• November 11 – Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
• November 16 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara accedes to the throne of Japan.

[edit] Undated

• Europe's population is estimated at 56.7 million (Spielvogel).
• The Luo, a Nilotic people from modern Sudan, settle the Cwezi states, establishing the state of Bunyoro-Kitara (approximate date).
• Diogo Dias is the first European to see Madagascar.
• The High Renaissance starts.
• Duarte Barbosa arrives in India. He works as interpreter and translator in Cochin and Cananor in Kerala.

1500 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1500 MD
Ab urbe condita	2253
Armenian calendar	949 ԹՎ ՋԽԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-344 – -343
Bengali calendar	907
Berber calendar	2450
Buddhist calendar	2044
Burmese calendar	862
Byzantine calendar	7008 – 7009
Chinese calendar	己未年十二月初一日 (4136/4196-12-1) — to — 庚申年十二月十一日 (4137/4197-12-11)
Coptic calendar	1216 – 1217
Ethiopian calendar	1492 – 1493
Hebrew calendar	5260 – 5261
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1555 – 1556
- Shaka Samvat	1422 – 1423
- Kali Yuga	4601 – 4602
Holocene calendar	11500
Iranian calendar	878 – 879
Islamic calendar	905 – 906
Japanese calendar	Meiō 9 (明応9年)
Korean calendar	3833
Thai solar calendar	2043
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[edit] Births

• January 5 – John of Avila, Spanish mystic and saint (d. 1569)
• February 22 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
• February 24 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1558)
• April 12 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574)
• April 23 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565)
• May 17 – Frederick II, Duke of Mantua, (d. 1540)
• November 1 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (d. 1571)
• date unknown
  • Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian and composer (d. 1553)
  • Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (d. 1566)
  • Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1558)
  • Johann Stumpf, Swiss writer (d. 1576)
• probable
  • Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist (d. 1582)
  • Heinrich Faber, German music theorist (d. 1552)
  • Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese writer (d. 1572)
  • Mem de Sá, Governor-General of Brazil (d. 1572)

[edit] Deaths

• May 28
  • Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1450)
  • Thomas Rotherham, English cleric and minister (b. 1423)
• June 26 – Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (b. 1499)
• September 2 – Albert, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
• September 15 – John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1420)
• October 6 – John Alcock, English churchman (b. c.1430)
• October 21 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
• date unknown
  • Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, scholar, poet and soldier (b. c. 1453)
• probable
  • Juan Pérez de Gijón, Spanish composer (b. 1460)
  • Stefano Infessura, humanist writer (b. c. 1435)
  • Fyodor Kuritsyn, Russian statesman

See also Category: 1500 deaths.