1500
EventsEurope's population was ~60 million. (Spielvogel)January 5 - Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French.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.Battle of Hemmingstedt: The Danish army fails to conquer the peasants' republic of Dithmarschen.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
See also :Category:1500 births February 24 - Charles V of Hapsburg born in Ghent Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (approximate date) Cristóbal de Morales, renowned Spanish composer (approximate date) Luis de Milán, Spanish composer, first to publish music for the guitar (approximate date) Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1558) Tielman Susato, Flemish composer and printer (approximate date)
Deaths
See also :Category:1500 deathsMay 29 - Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorerSeptember 5 - John Morton, Archbishop of CanterburyEmperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan
ReferencesSpielvogel -- Western Civilization -- Volume II: Since 1500 (5th Edition), p.401
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