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=== April–June === *[[April 22]] – 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]] – [[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]] – Cabral and his fleet depart from Brazil and sail eastward toward Africa, resuming their journey to India. * [[May 5]] – 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]] – The first guide to distilling of liquor is published, ''[[Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus]]'' by Hieronymus Brunschwig. * [[May 29]] – 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]] – [[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]] – 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]] – 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.
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