1500 was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

• Europe's population was ~60 million. (Spielvogel)
• January 5 - Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French.
• January 26 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to discover Brazil.
• 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.
• November 11 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
• Emperor Go-Kashiwabara ascends to the throne of Japan.
• Second Battle of Lepanto - The Turkish fleet of Kemal Re'is defeats the Venetians. The Turks proceed to capture Modon, Lepanto, and Koron.
• 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.

Births

• 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)
• November 1 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (died 1571)
• Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian and composer (died 1553)
• John of Avila, Spanish mystic and saint (died 1569)
• George Cavendish, English writer
• Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist (died 1582)
• Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (died 1566)
• Heinrich Faber, German music theorist (died 1552)
• Federico II of Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (died 1540)
• Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese writer (died 1572)
• Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1558)
• Mem de Sá, Governor-General of Brazil (died 1572)
• Johann Stumpf, Swiss writer (died 1576)
• Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian

Deaths

• May 29 - Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer
• June 19 - Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (born 1499)
• September 12 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (born 1443)
• September 15 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
• October 1 - John Alcock, English churchman
• October 21 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (born 1442)
• Juan Pérez de Gijón, Spanish composer (born 1460)
• Feodor Kuritsyn, Russian statesman
• Thomas Rotherham, English cleric and minister (born 1423)

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