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Template:C16YearInTopicX 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.
• August - Second Battle of Lepanto - The Turkish fleet of Kemal Reis defeats the Venetians. The Turks proceed to capture Modon, Lepanto, and Koron.
• 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 estimated at 567 million (Spielvogel).
• The Luo, a Nilotic people from modern Sudan, settle the Cwezi states, establishing the state of Buganda (approximate date).
• Diogo Dias is the first European to see Madagascar.
• The Luba people appear in the Congo-Kinshasa after a secession from a clan of the Sonhoy people.

1500 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1500 MD
Ab urbe condita	2253
Armenian calendar	949 ԹՎ ՋԽԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-344 – -343
Buddhist calendar	2044
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)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2160 (皇紀2160年)
Julian calendar	1545
Korean calendar	3833
Thai solar calendar	2043
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[edit] Births

• January 6 - John of Avila, Spanish mystic and saint (died 1569)
• February 22 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
• February 24 - Charles V (died 1558)
• April 12 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (died 1574)
• April 23 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (died 1565)
• May 17 - Frederick II, (died 1540)
• November 1 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (died 1571)
• date unknown
  • Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian and composer (died 1553)
  • Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (died 1566)
  • Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1558)
  • Johann Stumpf, Swiss writer (died 1576)
• probable
  • Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist (died 1582)
  • Heinrich Faber, German music theorist (died 1552)
  • Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese writer (died 1572)
  • Mem de Sá, Governor-General of Brazil (died 1572)

[edit] Deaths

• May 29
  • Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (born c1450)
  • Thomas Rotherham, English cleric and minister (born 1423)
• June 19 - Edmund Tudor (born 1499)
• September 12 - Albert (born 1443)
• September 15 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c1420)
• October 1 - John Alcock, English churchman (born c1430)
• November14-Sr.Evan MacGillivray, Explorer from scotland sailed for england (born 1462) died of black death
• October 21 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (born 1442)
• date unknown
  • Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, scholar, poet and soldier (born c.1453)
• probable
  • Juan Pérez de Gijón, Spanish composer (born 1460)
  • Stefano Infessura, humanist writer (born c.1435)
  • Fyodor Kuritsyn, Russian statesman

See also 1500 deaths.

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