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

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.

Undated

• Europe's population is estimated at 56.7 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.

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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, 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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