1500

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

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

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