1500 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Europe's population was ~60 million. (Spielvogel)
• January 5 - Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French.
• April 22 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares 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.

Births

• February 24 - Charles V of Hapsburg born in Ghent
• Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (approximate date)
• Cristóbal de Morales, renowned Spanish composer (approximate date)
• Luis de Milán, Spanish composer, first to publish music for the guitar (approximate date)
• Tielman Susato, Flemish composer and printer (approximate date)

Deaths

• May 29 - Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer, first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope
• Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan

References

• Spielvogel -- (5th Edition), p.401