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Year '''1500''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MD]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Wednesday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Julian calendar]].
== Events of 1500 ==
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* [[January 5]] - Duke [[Ludovico Sforza]] recaptures [[Milan]], but is soon driven out again by the [[France|French]].
* [[February 17]] - [[Battle of Hemmingstedt]]: The [[Denmark|Danish]] army fails to conquer the peasants' republic of [[Dithmarschen]].
* [[April 22]] - [[Portugal|Portuguese]] navigator [[Pedro Álvares Cabral]] officially discovers [[Brazil]] and claims the land for [[Portugal]]. He has 13 vessels with him.
* [[August]] - [[Battle of Lepanto (1500)|Second Battle of Lepanto]]: The [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] fleet of [[Kemal Reis]] defeats the [[Republic of Venice|Venetians]]. The [[Ottoman Empire|Turks]] proceed to capture [[Modon]] and [[Koroni|Coron]], the "two eyes of the Republic."
* [[November 11]] - [[Treaty of Granada (1500)|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 of Japan|Emperor Go-Kashiwabara]] accedes to the throne of [[Japan]].
===Undated===
* [[Europe]]'s population is estimated at 56.7 million (''[[Jackson J. Spielvogel|Spielvogel]]'').
* The [[Luo (family of ethnic groups)|Luo]], a [[Nilotic]] people from modern [[Sudan]], settle the [[Cwezi]] states, establishing the state of [[Bunyoro|Bunyoro-Kitara]] (approximate date).
* [[Diogo Dias]] is the first [[Europe]]an to see [[Madagascar]].
* The [[High Renaissance]] starts.
* [[Duarte Barbosa]] arrives in [[India]]. He works as [[interpreter]] and [[translator]] in [[Cochin]] and [[Cananor]] in [[Kerala]].
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==Births==
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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 (writer)|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==
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* [[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 (bishop)|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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