1500

This article is about the year 1500.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1497 1498 1499 – 1500 – 1501 1502 1503

1500 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1500 in poetry

1500 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1500 MD
Ab urbe condita	2253
Armenian calendar	949 ԹՎ ՋԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	6250
Bahá'í calendar	-344–-343
Bengali calendar	907
Berber calendar	2450
English Regnal year	15 Hen. 7 – 16 Hen. 7
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
- Vikram Samvat	1556–1557
- 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
Minguo calendar	412 before ROC 民前412年
Thai solar calendar	2043

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

Events

January–June

• 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.

July–December

• 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."
• August 10 – Diogo Dias discovers an island which he names St Lawrence (after the saint's day on which it was first sighted), later to be known as Madagascar
• 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.

Date unknown

• Europe's population is estimated at 56.7 million (Spielvogel).
• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is admitted to baccalaureate.
• Johannes Trithemius writes Steganographia (approximate date).

Births

• January 6 – 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 2 – 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 Pole, Cardinal 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 29
  • 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, Greek 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