Editing 1500 (section)

== 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"] (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}}</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>