1500

1500 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1500; MD
Ab urbe condita	2253
Armenian calendar	949; ԹՎ ՋԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	6250
Balinese saka calendar	1421–1422
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 (Earth Goat); 4197 or 3990; — to —; 庚申年 (Metal Monkey); 4198 or 3991
Coptic calendar	1216–1217
Discordian calendar	2666
Ethiopian calendar	1492–1493
Hebrew calendar	5260–5261
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1556–1557
- Shaka Samvat	1421–1422
- Kali Yuga	4600–4601
Holocene calendar	11500
Igbo calendar	500–501
Iranian calendar	878–879
Islamic calendar	905–906
Japanese calendar	Meiō 9; (明応９年)
Javanese calendar	1417–1418
Julian calendar	1500; MD
Korean calendar	3833
Minguo calendar	412 before ROC; 民前412年
Nanakshahi calendar	32
Thai solar calendar	2042–2043
Tibetan calendar	阴土羊年; (female Earth-Goat); 1626 or 1245 or 473; — to —; 阳金猴年; (male Iron-Monkey); 1627 or 1246 or 474

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

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.

Europe's population estimated at 5677 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.

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, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1558)
April 12 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (died 1574)
April 23 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (died 1565)
May 17 - Frederick II, Duke of Mantua, (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)

See also Category: 1500 deaths.