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[[File:Pedro alvares cabral discovery of brazil 1500.jpg|thumb|250px|April 22: [[Pedro Álvares Cabral]] and his crew land in Brazil and claim it for Portugal]]
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[[File:Max Koch Schlacht bei Hemmingstedt.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|[[February 17]]: [[Battle of Hemmingstedt]]]]

Year '''1500''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MD]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Wednesday]] in the [[Julian calendar]].  It was the last year of the [[15th century]].  The year 1500 was not a leap year in the [[proleptic Gregorian calendar]].

The year 1500 was seen as being especially important by many [[Christians]] in [[Europe]], who thought it would bring the beginning of the [[Eschatology|end of the world]]. Their belief was based on the phrase "half-time after the time", when the apocalypse was due to occur, which appears in the [[Book of Revelation]] and was seen as  referring to 1500. This time was also just after the Old World's discovery of the Americas in 1492, and therefore was influenced greatly by the New World.<ref>[[Andrew Graham-Dixon]], ''Art of Germany'' (2011), United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation{{request quotation|date=April 2012}}</ref>

Historically, the year 1500 is also often identified, somewhat arbitrarily, as marking the end of the [[Middle Ages]] and beginning of the [[early modern period]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Europe - The Middle Ages |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe/The-Middle-Ages |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 January 2021 |language=en |archive-date=February 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206235931/https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe/The-Middle-Ages |url-status=live }}</ref>

The end of this year marked the halfway point of the [[2nd millennium]], as there were 500 years before it and 500 years after it.

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 5]] &ndash; Duke [[Ludovico Sforza]] recaptures [[Milan]], but is soon driven out again by the [[Kingdom of France|French]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Salvatorelli |first1=Luigi |title=A Concise History of Italy: From Prehistoric Times to Our Own Day |date=1977 |publisher=AMS Press |isbn=978-0-404-14596-5 |page=371 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3fANAQAAMAAJ&q=%225%20january%201500%22 |access-date=13 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] &ndash; Spanish navigator [[Vicente Yáñez Pinzón]] reaches the northern coast of [[Colonial Brazil|Brazil]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pinzon-discovers-brazil|title=Pinzon discovers Brazil|website=HISTORY|date=March 2, 2010 |language=en|access-date=2019-10-11|archive-date=October 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001121448/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pinzon-discovers-brazil|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Ludovico Sforza]]'s Swiss mercenary army retakes the city of [[Milan]] from the French during the [[Italian Wars of 1499–1504|Second Italian War]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meschini |first1=Stefano |title=La Francia nel ducato di Milano: Dall'occupazione del Ducato alla Lega di Cambrai |date=2006 |publisher=FrancoAngeli |isbn=978-88-464-7134-5 |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jnRoAAAAMAAJ&q=%225%20febbraio%201500%22%20 |access-date=13 June 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Battle of Hemmingstedt]]: The [[Kalmar Union|Danish]] army fails to conquer the peasants' republic of [[Dithmarschen]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Witt |first1=Reimer |title=Die Schlacht bei Hemmingstedt – Wahrheit und Legende |url=https://www.beirat-fuer-geschichte.de/fileadmin/pdf/band_12/Demokratische_Geschichte_Band_12_Essay_3.pdf |website=www.beirat-fuer-geschichte.de |access-date=13 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Pedro Álvares Cabral]], with [[2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500)|a fleet of 13 ships]], departs Portugal on a voyage to the New World.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abreu |first1=João Capistrano de |title=Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History 1500-1800 |date=10 December 1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-802631-0 |page=23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73CsasKb1CgC&dq=Pedro+%C3%81lvares+Cabral+13+%229+march+1500%22&pg=PA23 |access-date=13 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] &ndash; The Parliament of Bohemia adopts a new constitution that limits the power of [[Vladislaus II of Hungary|King Vladislav II]] and subsequent Bohemian monarchs.<ref>Miroslav Buchvaldek (1987). ''Československé dějiny v datech'' ("Czechoslovak History and Data"). Svoboda.</ref>
* [[March 24]] &ndash; The day after departing the Cape Verde Islands with the rest of Cabral's fleet, [[Vasco de Ataíde]] and his 150 crewmates die when their ship goes down in a storm.<ref>[http://objdigital.bn.br/Acervo_Digital/livros_eletronicos/carta.pdf?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=id&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp "A CARTA DE PERO VAZ DE CAMINHA"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025191112/http://objdigital.bn.br/Acervo_Digital/livros_eletronicos/carta.pdf?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=id&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp |date=October 25, 2022 }} (in Portuguese)</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
*[[April 22]] &ndash; Portuguese navigator [[Pedro Álvares Cabral]] and his crew on 13 vessels [[Discovery of Brazil|arrive in Brazil]], anchoring at [[Monte Pascoal]] and naming the country Vera Cruz.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vianna |first1=Helio |title=História do Brasil |date=1994 |publisher=Melhoramentos |location=São Paulo |isbn=978-85-06-01999-3 |pages=43–44 |url=https://archive.org/details/historiadobrasil0000vian/page/42/mode/2up?q=%2222+de+abril%22 |access-date=13 June 2023|language=pt}}</ref> Cabral claims the land for the [[Kingdom of Portugal]]. 
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Pero Vaz de Caminha]] finishes writing [[Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha|his chronicle]] of the Portuguese discovery of Brazil while accompanying Cabral.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Greenlee |first1=William Brooks |title=Voyage Of Pedro Alvares Cabral To Brazil And India |date=1938 |publisher=The Hakluyt Society |page=33 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57073/page/n111/mode/2up?q=india |access-date=14 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 3]] &ndash; Cabral and his fleet depart from Brazil and sail eastward toward Africa, resuming their journey to India. 
* [[May 5]] &ndash; Representatives of the English and Spanish royal families sign a treaty at [[Canterbury]] for the marriage of 13-year-old [[Arthur, Prince of Wales]] (son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York) to 14-year-old Princess [[Catherine of Aragon]]. Arthur's marriage to Catherine takes place the next year, but Arthur dies five months later; she marries Arthur's younger brother Henry VIII in 1509.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williamson |first1=David |title=Debrett's kings and queens of Britain |date=1986 |publisher=Salem House |location=Topsfield |isbn=978-0-88162-213-3 |page=112 |url=https://archive.org/details/debrettskingsque0000will/page/112/mode/2up?q=%2214+november%22 |access-date=14 June 2023}}</ref> 
* [[May 8]] &ndash; The first guide to distilling of liquor is published, ''[[Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus]]'' by Hieronymus Brunschwig.
* [[May 29]] &ndash; Traveling eastward from Brazil, Cabral and his fleet run into a storm off of the coast of Africa near the [[Cape of Good Hope]] and lose four of their 13 ships.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marchon |first1=Albino |title=Do Oiapoque ao Chuí: Aventura e História no litoral do Brasil |date=29 January 2016 |chapter=Travessia tragica do Cabo da Boa Esperanca|publisher=Simplíssimo |isbn=978-85-69333-41-8 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3sOoCwAAQBAJ&dq=Bartolomeu+Dias+%22+29+de+maio+de+1500%22&pg=PT48 |access-date=14 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Navigator [[Bartolomeu Dias]] is among the persons killed.
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Pope Alexander VI]] issues the [[papal bull]] ''[[Quamvis ad amplianda]]'', calling on a Roman Catholic crusade against the [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Housley |first1=N. |title=Crusading in the Fifteenth Century: Message and Impact |date=14 November 2004 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-52335-7 |page=138 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmiADAAAQBAJ&dq=Quamvis+ad+amplianda+%221+june+1500%22&pg=PA138 |access-date=14 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 29]] &ndash; A combined force of troops from the [[Kingdom of France]] and from the [[Republic of Florence]] lay siege to the city of [[Pisa]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baumgartner |first1=Frederic J. |title=Louis XII |date=1994 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-312-12072-6 |page=120 |url=https://archive.org/details/louisxii0000baum/page/120/mode/2up?q=%22june+29%22 |access-date=14 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] &ndash; Sultan [[Abu Sa'id Qansuh]] of Egypt is overthrown and sent into exile. [[Al-Ashraf Janbalat|Al-Ashraf Abu al-Nasir Janbalat]] is crowned as the new [[Mamluk]] sultan, but reigns for less than six months.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 14]] &ndash; The [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovites]] defeat the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania|Lithuanians]] and the [[Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569)|Poles]] in the [[Battle of Vedrosha]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Богуславский |first1=Владимир Вольфович |title=Рюриковичи и Русь: от Рюрика до смутного времени : [иллюстрированный исторический словарь] |date=2009 |publisher=Вече |isbn=978-5-9533-1927-0 |page=75 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zwY0AQAAIAAJ&q=%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0+%2214+%D0%B8%D1%8E%D0%BB%D1%8F+1500%22 |access-date=14 June 2023 |language=ru}}</ref>
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)|Ottoman–Venetian War]]: The [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] fleet of [[Kemal Reis]] defeats the [[Republic of Venice|Venetians]] in the [[Second Battle of Lepanto]]. 
* [[August 9]] &ndash; In the Venetian Republic, the [[Ottoman Empire]] Turks capture [[Methoni, Messenia|Modon]]  and [[Koroni|Coron]], the "two eyes of the Republic".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Manfroni |first1=Camillo |title=Storia della marina italiana |date=1897 |publisher=R. Accademia navale |pages=227–229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5vvQAAAAMAAJ&q=Kemal%20Reis |access-date=14 June 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Diogo Dias]] discovers an island which he names São Lourenço, since August 10 is the feast day of [[Saint Lawrence]], a Roman Catholic martyr of the [[3rd century]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Larson |first1=Pier Martin |title=Colonies Lost: God, Hunger, and Conflict in Anosy (Madagascar) to 1674 |journal=Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East |date=2007 |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=345–366 |doi=10.1215/1089201x-2007-010 |s2cid=143437636 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/220769 |access-date=14 June 2023 |issn=1548-226X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The massive island is later known as [[Madagascar]].
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Francisco de Bobadilla]], appointed to replace Admiral Christopher Columbus as [[List of viceroys of New Spain|Spanish Governor-General of the New World]], arrives at [[Santo Domingo]] on the island of [[Hispanola]]. Bobadilla issues  an order directing Christopher and Bartolomeo Columbus to appear before him at Santo Domingo.<ref>Tom Smith, ''Discovery of the Americas, 1492-1800'' (Facts On File, Inc., 2009) p.35</ref>
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[George, Duke of Saxony|George the Bearded]] begins a reign of more than 38 years as [[List of rulers of Saxony#Table of rulers|Duke of Saxony]] at the Saxon capital of [[Emden]], after the death of his father, [[Albert III, Duke of Saxony|Albert III]], who had ruled 36 years.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herbermann |first1=Charles George |title=The Catholic Encyclopedia |volume=6|date=1909 |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |page=457 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUwfAQAAMAAJ&q=meissen |access-date=15 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> George also becomes George II, [[List of margraves of Meissen|Margrave of Meissen]].
* [[September 13]] &ndash; Pedro Cabral's fleet of nine ships arrives in India, more than six months after departing from Portugal, and lands at the port of [[Kozhikode|Calicut]], which had been visited two years earlier by [[Vasco da Gama]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dodwell |first1=H. H. |title=Cambridge History Of India |date=1929 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=5 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46993/page/n31/mode/2up?q=%2213+september%22 |access-date=15 June 2023}}</ref>
[[File:Columbus Murals Bobadilla Betrays Columbus.jpg|thumb|250px|Christopher Columbus arrested]]
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] (Cristobal Colon) is placed under arrest, along with his two brothers, Bartolome and Diego, after appearing before [[Francisco de Bobadilla]], who had replaced him as the [[List of viceroys of New Spain|Spanish Governor of the New World]]. ("El 15 de septiemre Bobadilla presenta sus credenciales a Colon... Colon habia ejectuado a varios espanoles cargo de gran peso contra el, asi que al fin Bobadilla resolvio enviarlos presos a Espana para que alla se les juzgase."— "On the 15th of September of 1500, Bobadilla presented his credential to Columbus. Columbus had executed several Spaniards charged with great weight against him, so Bobadilla finally decided to send them prisoners to Spain so that they could be tried there.") <ref name=Aguilar>Raúl Aguilar Rodas, ''Cristobal Colón: realidad y ficción tras 500 años de su muerte, 1506-2006'' ("Christopher Columbus: Reality and fiction, 500 years after his death") (Paniberica, 2006) p. 95</ref> 
* [[September 23]] &ndash; Bobadilla hears testimony from 22 witnesses and concludes that the Columbus brothers intended to overthrow him; he has them placed in manacles and chains for deportation to Spain. ("La pesquisa de Bobadilla contra Colon habia comenzado el 23-IX-1500."— "Bobadilla's investigation against Colon had begun on 23 September 1500.") <ref>José María Vallejo García-Hevia, ''Estudios de institucions Hispano-Indianas'' ("Studies of Hispanic and Indian Institutions")(Boletín Oficial del Estado, 2015) p. 167</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; Christopher Columbus and his brothers, arrested and in chains, are deported from [[Santo Domingo]] to Spain.<ref name=Nader>Helen Nader, ''The Book of Privileges Issued to Christopher Columbus by King Fernando and Queen Isabel, 1492-1502'' (Wipf & Stock, 2004) p.54</ref>
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Malwa Sultanate#The Khalji dynasty (1436–1531)|Nasir-ud-Din Shah]] overthrows the government of his father, [[Ghiyath Shah]], ruler of the [[Malwa Sultanate]] (located in much of what is now the Indian state of [[Madhya Pradesh]]) for the last 31 years.<ref>John Andrew Allan and Henry Herbert Dodwell, ''The Cambridge Shorter History of India'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936) p. 307</ref> Upon becoming the new Sultan, Nasir has his brother Ala-ud-Din executed, along with Ala-ud-din's children. Ghiyasuddin is poisoned the following February. 
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Granada (1500)|Treaty of Granada]]: [[Louis XII]] of France and [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] agree to divide the [[Kingdom of Naples]] between them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knecht |first1=Robert |title=The Valois: Kings of France 1328-1589 |date=1 April 2007 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-85285-522-2 |page=128 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkqzOlVJVjcC&dq=Treaty+of+Granada+%2211+november+1500%22&pg=PA128 |access-date=15 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Emperor Go-Kashiwabara]] accedes to the throne of [[Meiō]] era Japan.
* [[November 25]] &ndash; Christopher Columbus and his brothers arrive in Spain at Seville "after one of the longest Atlantic crossings in the Columbian years" (six weeks) and released on their own recognizance.<ref name=Nader/>
* [[December 17]] &ndash; All charges against the Columbus brothers for malfeasance in governing Hispanola are dismissed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.<ref name=Aguilar/> 
* [[December 24]] &ndash; The [[Siege of the Castle of St. George]] ends, and the island of [[Cephalonia]] is captured by a joint Venetian–Spanish fleet.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Setton |first1=Kenneth Meyer |title=The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The fifteenth century |date=1976 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |isbn=978-0-87169-127-9 |page=523 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Sz2VYI0l1IC&q=%2224+decemeber+1500%22 |access-date=15 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 31]]  &ndash; The last [[incunable]] is printed in Venice.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert James Bast|author2=Andrew Colin Gow|author3=Heiko Augustinus Oberman|title=Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late Medieval and Reformation History : Essays Presented to Heiko A. Oberman on His 70th Birthday|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hrmdtE6EoKUC&pg=PA122|year=2000|publisher=Brill|isbn=90-04-11633-8|pages=122|access-date=July 4, 2020|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802044811/https://books.google.com/books?id=hrmdtE6EoKUC&pg=PA122|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* Europe's population is estimated at 56.7 million people.<ref>[[Jackson J. Spielvogel]]</ref> The world's population is estimated to be between 425 million and 540 million.<ref>{{cite web |title=Historical Estimates of World Population |url=https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/international-programs/historical-est-worldpop.html |website=Census.gov |access-date=15 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[Saxony#Foundation of the second Saxon state|Saxony]]'s mint at [[Annaberg-Buchholz|Annaberg]] begins producing [[guldengroschen]]s, also known as guldiners.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gerhardt |first1=Marcus Rudolf Balthasar |title=Handbuch der Deutschen Münz- Maaß- und Gewichtskunde |date=1788 |publisher=Wever |page=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jwScXQrVltMC&dq=Guldengroschen+annaberg+%221500%22&pg=PA17 |access-date=15 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* Although other reports exist, it is thought that the last [[gray wolf|wolf]] in England is killed this year, making the species extinct in that country.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Karen R. |title=Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide |date=2002 |publisher=University of Calgary Press |isbn=978-1-55238-072-7 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KOWzS3sPZkEC&dq=wolf+england+%221500%22&pg=PA7 |access-date=15 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The wolf is thought to have been killed in [[Allithwaite]], in [[Cumbria]]. However, reports of wolf sightings and laws concerning wolf bounties exist in rural areas of [[Northern England|the north]] until the 18th century.
* A group of [[Māori people|Māori]] migrate east from the [[New Zealand]] mainland to the [[Chatham Islands]], developing a distinct pacificist culture known as the [[Moriori]] (approx. date).</onlyinclude>

== World population ==
{{Main|List of countries by population in 1500}}

== Births ==
[[File:Elderly Karl V.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|Emperor [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]]]]
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[John of Ávila]], Spanish mystic and saint (d. [[1569]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Raphaël Louis Oechslin|title=Louis of Granada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWMfAAAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Herder|page=24|access-date=April 30, 2021|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430153615/https://books.google.com/books?id=RWMfAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Jean Quintin]], French priest, knight and writer (d. [[1561]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vella |first1=Horatio C. R. |title=Jean Quintin's ''Insulae Melitae Descriptio'' (1536) : an anniversary and a discussion on its sources |journal=Humanitas: Journal of the Faculty of Arts |date=2003 |volume=2 |pages=155–171 |url=https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/51546/1/Humanitas2A8.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919235623/https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/51546/1/Humanitas2A8.pdf |archive-date=19 September 2020 |publisher=[[University of Malta]]}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[João de Castro]], Portuguese nobleman and fourth viceroy of Portuguese India (d. [[1548]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Benjamin Eli Smith|title=The Century Cyclopedia of Names: A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Art, Archæology, Fiction, Etc. ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IB0xAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA224|year=1895|publisher=Century Company|pages=224|access-date=April 30, 2021|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430153615/https://books.google.com/books?id=IB0xAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA224|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; Cardinal [[Rodolfo Pio da Carpi]], Italian humanist (d. [[1564]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tiraboschi |first1=Girolamo |title=Biblioteca modenese |date=1783 |volume=4|publisher=Società tipografica |page=212 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033440655&view=1up&seq=220&q1=1500 |access-date=16 June 2023|language=it}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1558]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles V {{!}} Accomplishments, Reign, Abdication, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-V-Holy-Roman-emperor |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 January 2021 |language=en |archive-date=May 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509115658/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/107009/Charles-V |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Reginald Pole]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1558]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 22, 1536 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1536.htm#Pole |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=16 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Haile |first1=Martin |title=Life of Reginald Pole |date=1910 |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co |location=New York |page=5 |url=https://archive.org/details/lifereginaldpol00hailgoog/page/4/mode/2up?q=%221500%22 |access-date=16 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Joachim Camerarius]], German classical scholar (d. [[1574]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia: a Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYtRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA740|year=1879|publisher=A.J. Johnson & Son|pages=740|access-date=March 28, 2021|archive-date=August 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821204437/https://books.google.com/books?id=VYtRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA740|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[April 23]] 
**[[Alexander Ales]], Scottish theologian (d. [[1565]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John McClintock|author2=James Strong|title=Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Ac4AQAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Baker Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8010-6123-3|page=138|access-date=March 28, 2021|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430153020/https://books.google.com/books?id=2Ac4AQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
**[[Johann Stumpf (writer)|Johann Stumpf]], Swiss writer (d. [[1576]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert W. Karrow|title=Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps: Bio-bibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570 : Based on Leo Bagrow's A. Ortelii Catalogus Cartographorum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuMRAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Newberry Library|isbn=978-0-932757-05-0|page=510|access-date=March 28, 2021|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430153018/https://books.google.com/books?id=BuMRAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Louis, Count of Vaudémont]], Italian bishop (d. [[1528]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Poupardière |first1=Charles Louis de Foucault de la |title=Histoire de Léopold 1er. Duc de Lorraine et de Bar |date=1791 |publisher=l'imprimerie d'Emm |page=314 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1nJgAAAAcAAJ&dq=Louis+de+Lorraine++%2227+avril+1500%22&pg=PA314 |access-date=16 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua]] (d. [[1540]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bourne |first1=Molly |title=Francesco II Gonzaga: The Soldier-prince as Patron |date=2008 |publisher=Bulzoni |isbn=978-88-7870-325-4 |page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oClMAQAAIAAJ&q=Federico+II+Gonzaga+%2217+may+1500%22 |access-date=16 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Ernest of Bavaria (1500–1560)|Ernest of Bavaria]], pledge lord of the County of Glatz (d. [[1560]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie |date=1877 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |location=Leipzig |page=249 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fQhMZH3oPhoC&dq=Ernst,+Herzog+von+Baiern+%2213+juni+1500%22&pg=PA249 |access-date=16 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Federico Cesi (cardinal)]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1565]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 19, 1544 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1544.htm#Cesi |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Lorenzo Cybo]], Italian condottiero (d. [[1549]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Atti e memorie della R. Deputazione di storia patria per le provincie modenesi |date=1892 |volume=1|publisher=G. T. Vincenzi |location=Modena |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RbJGQ1dFiYMC&dq=Lorenzo+Cybo+20+luglio+1500&pg=PA142 |access-date=16 June 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Louis Gonzaga (Rodomonte)]], Italian-French dignitary and diplomat (d. [[1532]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Affò |first1=Ireneo |title=Vita di Luigi Gonzaga detto Rodomonte principe del Sacro Romano Impero, duca di Trajetto, conte di Fondi, e signore di Rivarolo |date=1780 |publisher=Filippo Carmignani |page=29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qJk_AAAAcAAJ&q=1500 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Maria of Jever]], last ruler of the Lordship of Jever (d. [[1575]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=KRUEGER |first1=Johann |title=Bilder aus der Geschichte Bremens ... nebst einer kurzen geographischen Beschreibung des Bremischen Staates |date=1855 |publisher=C. Schünemann's Buchhandlung |page=192 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VxlbAAAAcAAJ&dq=Maria+von+Jever+%225+september+1500%22&pg=PA192 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Sebastian Newdigate]], Carthusian monk and martyr (d. [[1535]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Newdigate, Sebastian |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-68241 | year=2004 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/68241}}</ref>
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Sebastiano Antonio Pighini]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1553]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of November 20, 1551 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1551-ii.htm#Pighini |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Alonso de Orozco Mena]], Spanish Roman Catholic priest (d. [[1591]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nieto |first1=Luis Moreno |title=Santos y beatos de Toledo |date=2003 |publisher=I.T. San Ildefonso |isbn=978-84-932535-7-8 |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vdmfBPUbXPoC&dq=Alonso+de+Orozco+Mena%22+17+de+octubre+de+1500%22&pg=PA89 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Benvenuto Cellini]], Italian goldsmith and sculptor (d. [[1571]])<ref>{{gutenberg|no=4028|name=Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Symonds translation}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus Mameranus]], Luxembourgish soldier and historian (d. [[1567]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Didier |first1=Nikolaus Auteur |title=Nikolaus Mameranus : ein Luxemburger Humanist des XVI. Jahrhunderts am Hofe der Habsburger, sein Leben und seine Werke |date=1915 |publisher=Freiburg im Breisgau |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k853028c/f27.item.r=1500 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* ''probable''
** [[Johannes Aal]], Swiss theologian and composer (d. [[1553]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Aal, Johannes |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/011462/2001-01-24/ |website=hls-dhs-dss.ch |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[Charles Dumoulin]], French jurist (d. [[1566]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Decock |first1=Wim |title=Great Christian Jurists in French History |date=2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-48408-4 |pages=97–116 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/great-christian-jurists-in-french-history/charles-dumoulin/85DFBEFE0DC90E1EEC0FA43F829C625D |access-date=17 June 2023 |chapter=Charles Dumoulin: (1500–1566)}}</ref>
** [[Wu Cheng'en]], Chinese novelist (d. [[1582]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Wu Cheng'en |url=http://203.72.198.245/web/Content.asp?ID=65038&Query=1 |access-date=17 June 2023 |date=29 September 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929105610/http://203.72.198.245/web/Content.asp?ID=65038&Query=1 | archive-date=September 29, 2007 |language=zh}}</ref>
** [[Heinrich Faber]], German music theorist (d. [[1552]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Grimm |first1=Hartmut |last2=Wald-Fuhrmann |first2=Melanie |last3=Scheideler |first3=Ullrich |last4=Wörner |first4=Felix |title=Lexikon Schriften über Musik: Band 1: Musiktheorie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart |volume=1|date=21 November 2017 |publisher=Bärenreiter-Verlag |isbn=978-3-7618-7124-9 |page=135 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sw5BEAAAQBAJ&dq=Heinrich+Faber+%221500%22&pg=PA135 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[Francisco de Moraes]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1572]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Aubrey Fitz Gerald |title=Portuguese Literature |date=1922 |publisher=Clarendon P. |isbn=978-0-7426-4418-2 |page=232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3lSu7_VU_5kC&dq=Francisco+de+Moraes+%221500%22&pg=PA232 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Jeanne de la Font]], French poet and culture patron (d. [[1532]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Robin |first1=Diana |last2=Larsen |first2=Anne R. |last3=Levin |first3=Carole |title=Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England |date=March 2007 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-772-2 |page=198 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQ8mdTjxungC&dq=Jeanne+de+la+Font+%221500%22&pg=PA198 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Solomon Molcho]], Portuguese mystic (d. [[1532]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Singer |first1=Isidore |last2=Adler |first2=Cyrus |title=The Jewish encyclopedia |date=1901 |publisher=Funk & Wagnalls Company |page=651 |url=https://archive.org/details/b29000488_0008/page/650/mode/2up?q=%22molko%22 |access-date=16 June 2023}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
[[File:Leonhard von Görz (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Leonhard of Gorizia]]]]
[[File:PinturicchioAlfonso.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Alfonso of Aragon (1481–1500)|Alfonso of Aragon]]]]

=== January&ndash;June ===
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[William III, Landgrave of Hesse]] (b. [[1471]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hitzeroth |first1=Carl |title=Hessenland: Zeitschrift für die Kulturpflege des Bezirksverbandes Hessen |date=1887 |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvssAAAAYAAJ&dq=Wilhelm+III+%2217+februar+1500%22&pg=RA2-PA67 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Michael Tarchaniota Marullus]], Greek scholar, poet and soldier (b. c. [[1453]])<ref>{{Cite book |author=Titus Lucretius Carus |title=Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: With a translation and notes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-hmH2pcEuEC&pg=PA6 |year=1864 |publisher=Bell |pages=6 |access-date=March 28, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709225921/https://books.google.com/books?id=L-hmH2pcEuEC&pg=PA6 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Leonhard of Gorizia]], Count of Gorz (b. [[1440]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Seibert |first1=Anton E. |title=Görz. Stadt und Land |date=1873 |publisher=Sochar |page=26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ihZaAAAAcAAJ&dq=Leonhard+von+G%C3%B6rz+%2212+april+1500%22&pg=PA26 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[May 29]]
** [[Bartolomeu Dias]], Portuguese explorer (b. c. [[1450]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Rebecca Stefoff|title=The British Library Companion to Maps and Mapmaking|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VKcYAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=British Library|isbn=978-0-7123-0650-8|page=111|access-date=April 30, 2021|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430153615/https://books.google.com/books?id=VKcYAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Thomas Rotherham]], English cleric and minister (b. [[1423]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Horrox |first1=Rosemary |title=Rotherham [Scot], Thomas |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-24155 |year=2004 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/24155}}</ref>
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset]], English nobleman (b. [[1499]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weir |first1=Alison |title=Britain's royal families : the complete genealogy |date=2002 |publisher=Pimlico |location=London |isbn=978-0-7126-4286-6 |page=152 |url=https://archive.org/details/britainsroyalfam0000weir/page/152/mode/2up |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Lodovico Lazzarelli]], Italian poet (b. [[1447]])<ref>[[Wouter J. Hanegraaff]] and Ruud M. Bouthoorn, ''Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents'', Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe 2005.</ref>

=== July&ndash;December ===
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Íñigo López de Mendoza y Luna, 2nd Duke of the Infantado]], Spanish noble (b. [[1438]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Serrano |first1=Francisco Layna |title=Historia de Guadalajara y sus Mendozas en los siglos XV y XVI |date=1942 |publisher=Aldus, S.A. |location=Madrid |page=219 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o99WAAAAMAAJ&q=%2214%20de%20julio%20de%201500%22 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal]] (b. [[1498]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pereira |first1=Esteves |title=Portugal; diccionario historico, chorographico, heraldico, biographico, bibliographico, numismatico e artistico: L-M |date=1909 |publisher=J. Romano Torres |page=1099 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dalCAAAAYAAJ&dq=Miguel+da+Paz+%2219+de+julho+de+1500%22&pg=PA1099 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Alfonso of Aragon (1481–1500)|Alfonso of Aragon]], prince (b. [[1481]])<ref>{{cite book |title=L'Arte di verificare le date dei fatti storici delle inscrizioni delle cronache e di altri antichi monumenti dal principio dell'era christiana sino all'anno 1770 |date=1838 |volume=17|publisher=Gattei |page=505 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jHvMyFObxhwC&dq=Alfonso+d%27Aragona+%2218+agosto+1500%22&pg=PA505 |access-date=17 June 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg]], German noble (b. [[1449]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Hanau-Münzenberg, Philipp I. der Jüngere Graf von |url=https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/104207477 |website=www.lagis-hessen.de |access-date=17 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Victor, Duke of Münsterberg]] and Opava, Count of Glatz (b. [[1443]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ciurlok |first1=Jerzy |title=Ich książęce wysokości. Część górnośląska |date=20 March 2020 |publisher=Silesia Progress |isbn=978-83-936190-4-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gbYDwAAQBAJ&dq=Wiktoryn+z+Podiebrad%C3%B3w+%22+30+wrze%C5%9Bnia+1500%22&pg=PT193 |access-date=18 June 2023 |quote=Prince Wiktoryn did not move to either the Ziębice-Oleśnica or Kłodzko estates of the Podiebrady family, although he was entitled to titles related to them. He died on September 30, 1500 in Cieszyn, but was buried in Kłodzko in the family crypts.|language=pl}}</ref>
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Albert III, Duke of Saxony]] (b. [[1443]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richthofen |first1=Karl Freiherr von |title=Untersuchungen über friesische Rechtsgeschichte: Upstalsbom, Freiheit und Grafen in Friesland, Kapitel 4 - 6, Abschnitt 1 |date=1882 |publisher=Wilhelm Hertz |location=Berlin |page=295 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-nh1Z-hKpAMC&dq=Albert+III+%2212+september+1500%22&pg=PA295 |access-date=18 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[John Morton (cardinal)|John Morton]], English [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. c. [[1420]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society|title=Transactions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88gGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA214|year=1874|pages=214|access-date=March 28, 2021|archive-date=August 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821204440/https://books.google.com/books?id=88gGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA214|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[John Alcock (bishop)|John Alcock]], English Bishop of Ely (b. c. [[1430]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society |date=1967 |volume=60|publisher=I.L. Norie and Wilson, Limited |page=91 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YMTdykKXRsC&q=%20%221%20october%201500%22 |access-date=18 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado]] of Japan (b. [[1442]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Philip, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen]], German prince (b. [[1468]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Antonia of Savoy]], Lady Consort of Monaco<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saige |first1=Gustave |title=Monaco |date=1897 |publisher=Imprimerie de Monaco |page=115 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yLoBAAAAYAAJ&dq=Antoinette+de+Savoie+%221500%22&pg=PA115 |access-date=18 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
;Probable
* [[Juan Pérez de Gijón]], Spanish composer (b. [[1460]])
* [[Stefano Infessura]], Italian humanist writer (b. c. [[1435]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Infessura, Stefano |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/stefano-infessura |website=www.treccani.it |access-date=18 June 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
* [[Fyodor Kuritsyn]], Russian statesman, philosopher and poet<ref>{{cite web |title=Курицын Федор Васильевич, посольский дьяк |url=http://lib.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default.aspx?tabid=4030 |website=lib.pushkinskijdom.ru |access-date=18 June 2023|language=ru}}</ref>
* [[Nyai Gede Pinateh]], Javanese merchant (b. c. [[1450]])

== References ==
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