Editing 1500 (section)

=== 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>