1500

Year 1500 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the.

Events of 1500

 * - Duke recaptures, but is soon driven out again by the.
 * - : The army fails to conquer the peasants' republic of.
 * - navigator  officially discovers  and claims the land for.
 * August - - The  fleet of  defeats the . The  proceed to capture, , and Koron.
 * - -  and  agree to divide the  between them.
 * - accedes to the throne of.

Undated

 * 's population estimated at 567 million ().
 * The, a people from modern , settle the Cwezi states, establishing the state of  (approximate date).
 * is the first an to see.
 * The Luba people appear in the Congo-Kinshasa after a secession from a clan of the Sonhoy people.

Births

 * -, Spanish mystic and saint (died )
 * -, Italian humanist (d. )
 * - (died )
 * -, German classical scholar (died )
 * -, Scottish theologian (died )
 * -, (died )
 * -, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (died )
 * date unknown
 * , Swiss theologian and composer (died )
 * , French jurist (died )
 * , (died )
 * , Swiss writer (died )
 * probable
 * , Chinese novelist (died )
 * , German music theorist (died )
 * , Portuguese writer (died )
 * , Governor-General of Brazil (died )

Deaths

 * , Portuguese explorer (born c)
 * , English cleric and minister (born )
 * - (born )
 * - (born )
 * -, (born c)
 * -, English churchman (born c)
 * -, Explorer from scotland sailed for england (born 1462) died of black death
 * - (born )
 * date unknown
 * , scholar, poet and soldier (born c.1453)
 * probable
 * , Spanish composer (born )
 * , humanist writer (born c.1435)
 * , Russian statesman
 * , Russian statesman


 * See also .