1500

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

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 - 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.

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.

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)

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

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