1500 facts for kids

Year 1500 (MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The year 1500 wasn't a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.

The year was seen as being especially important by many Christians in Europe, who thought it would bring the beginning of the end of the world. Their belief was based on the phrase "half-time after the time", when the apocalypse was due to occur, which appears in the Book of Revelation and was seen as referring to 1500. This time was also just after the Old World's discovery of the Americas in 1492, and therefore was influenced greatly by the New World.^[1]

Events

• Europe's population was about 60 million.
• January 5 – Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French.
• January 26 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to discover Brazil.
• April 21 – 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.
• Battle of Hemmingstedt: The Danish army fails to conquer the peasants' republic of Dithmarschen.
• 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.

Images for kids

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  February 17: Battle of Hemmingstedt

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  Emperor Charles V

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  Leonhard of Gorizia

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  Alfonso of Aragon

See also

In Spanish: 1500 para niños