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Birth
1500 Birth, Marriage, Death in the UK 1500- 1500
- 1500
- 1500
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| 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 - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works
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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
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths
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- 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.
- 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 |
| 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 |
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| - 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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- 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)
- 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.
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