1500

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:
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Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
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Year 1500 (MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[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 - 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 567 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.

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)