1500

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s
Years:	1497 1498 1499 – 1500 – 1501 1502 1503

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]

^{Historically, the year 1500 is also often identified, somewhat arbitrarily, as marking the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Early Modern Era.}

^{The end of this year marked the halfway point of the 2nd millennium, as there were 500 years before it and 500 years after it.}

1500 Media

February 17: Battle of Hemmingstedt
Emperor Charles V
Graf Leonhard von Görz Fresko in der Kapelle von Schloß Bruck, Lienz
Alfonso of Aragon

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.