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The 1500s
-- 15:50, 9 September 2007 (UTC) In the 15100s the battle of Hemmingsted took place on Feburary the 17th. The Danish army faild to conqer the peasatns republic of Dithmarschen.
Charles V, king of Spain in 1516 to 1556, was born in Ghent, Belgium. He was the last Holy Roman Emperor to be crowned by the Pope on Feburary the 24th.
Pedro Cabral in 1460 to 1520 Portuguese navigator, departed to India. He left Lisbon with 13 ships headed for India and was blown off course in March the 9.
Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beat duke Ludovico Sforza (Il Sforza del Destino) on April the 9th.
Michael T. Marullus, Greeks poet, drowned on April the 11th. Abz Hepworth did this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Year '1500' ('MD') was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1500

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1500

★ 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.

★ August - Second Battle of Lepanto - The Turkish fleet of Kemal Reis defeats the Venetians. The Turks proceed to capture Modon, Lepanto, and Koron.

★ 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.

Undated

★ Europe's population estimated at 60 million (''Spielvogel'').

★ The Luo, a Nilotic people from modern Sudan, settle the Cwezi states, establishing the state of Buganda (approximate date).

★ Diogo Dias is the first European to see Madagascar.

★ The Luba people appear in the Congo-Kinshasa after a secession from a clan of the Sonhoy people.

Births

★ January 6 - John of Avila, Spanish mystic and saint (died 1569)

★ February 22 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)

★ February 24 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1558)

★ April 12 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (died 1574)

★ April 23 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (died 1565)

★ May 17 - Frederick II, Duke of Mantua, (died 1540)

★ November 1 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (died 1571)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian and composer (died 1553)

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★ Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (died 1566)

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★ Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1558)

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★ Johann Stumpf, Swiss writer (died 1576)

★ ''probable''

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★ Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist (died 1582)

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★ Heinrich Faber, German music theorist (died 1552)

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★ Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese writer (died 1572)

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★ Mem de Sá, Governor-General of Brazil (died 1572)

Deaths

★ May 29

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★ Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (born c1450)

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★ Thomas Rotherham, English cleric and minister (born 1423)

★ June 19 - Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (born 1499)

★ September 12 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (born 1443)

★ September 15 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c1420)

★ October 1 - John Alcock, English churchman (born c1430)

★ October 21 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (born 1442)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, scholar, poet and soldier (born c.1453)

★ ''probable''

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★ Juan Pérez de Gijón, Spanish composer (born 1460)

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★ Stefano Infessura, humanist writer (born c.1435)

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★ Fyodor Kuritsyn, Russian statesman
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