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	C	16th century
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	Yp2	1498
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	Year	1500
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	Ya2	1502
	Ya3	1503
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1500 was an Exceptional Common Year Starting On Monday (see link for calendar).

EVENTS

Europe 's population was ~60 Million . ('' Spielvogel '')

January 5 - Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan , but is soon driven out again by the French .

January 26 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first Europe an to discover Brazil .

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 .

November 11 - Treaty Of Granada - Louis XII Of France and Ferdinand II Of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom Of Naples between them.

Emperor Go-Kashiwabara ascends to the throne of Japan .

Second Battle Of Lepanto - The Turkish fleet of Kemal Re'is defeats the Venetians . The Turks proceed to capture Modon , Lepanto , and Koron .

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 .

BIRTHS

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 )

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

Johannes Aal , Swiss theologian and composer (died 1553 )

John Of Avila , Spanish mystic and saint (died 1569 )

George Cavendish , English writer

Wu Cheng'en , Chinese novelist (died 1582 )

Charles Dumoulin , French jurist (died 1566 )

Heinrich Faber , German music theorist (died 1552 )

Federico II Of Gonzaga , Marquis of Mantua (died 1540 )

Francisco De Moraes , Portuguese writer (died 1572 )

Reginald Cardinal Pole , Archbishop Of Canterbury (died 1558 )

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

Johann Stumpf , Swiss writer (died 1576 )

Pietro Martire Vermigli , Italian theologian

DEATHS

May 29 - Bartolomeu Dias , Portuguese explorer

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

September 12 - Albert, Duke Of Saxony (born 1443 )

September 15 - John Morton , Archbishop Of Canterbury

October 1 - John Alcock , English churchman

October 21 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado Of Japan (born 1442 )

Juan Pérez De Gijón , Spanish composer (born 1460 )

Feodor Kuritsyn , Russian statesman

Thomas Rotherham , English cleric and minister (born 1423 )