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1500 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1500 MD |
Ab urbe condita | 2253 |
Armenian calendar | 949 ԹՎ ՋԽԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6250 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1421–1422 |
Bengali calendar | 906–907 |
Berber calendar | 2450 |
English Regnal year | 15 Hen. 7 – 16 Hen. 7 |
Buddhist calendar | 2044 |
Burmese calendar | 862 |
Byzantine calendar | 7008–7009 |
Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4197 or 3990 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4198 or 3991 |
Coptic calendar | 1216–1217 |
Discordian calendar | 2666 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1492–1493 |
Hebrew calendar | 5260–5261 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1556–1557 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1421–1422 |
- Kali Yuga | 4600–4601 |
Holocene calendar | 11500 |
Igbo calendar | 500–501 |
Iranian calendar | 878–879 |
Islamic calendar | 905–906 |
Japanese calendar | Meiō 9 (明応9年) |
Javanese calendar | 1417–1418 |
Julian calendar | 1500 MD |
Korean calendar | 3833 |
Minguo calendar | 412 before ROC 民前412年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 32 |
Thai solar calendar | 2042–2043 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1626 or 1245 or 473 — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1627 or 1246 or 474 |
Year 1500 ( MD ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar. The year 1500 was not a leap year in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
The year 1500 was the last year of the 15th century and the first year of the 16th century. 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 period. [2]
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.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean and Central and South America.
The 1490s decade ran from January 1, 1490, to December 31, 1499.
Year 1574 (MDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1503 (MDIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
The 1500s ran from January 1, 1500, to December 31, 1509.
The 1510s decade ran from January 1, 1510, to December 31, 1519.
Year 1565 (MDLXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1498 (MCDXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1498th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 498th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 15th century, and the 9th and pre-final year of the 1490s decade.
Year 1537 (MDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
The 1530s decade ran from January 1, 1530, to December 31, 1539.
1570 (MDLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.
Year 1548 (MDXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1538 (MDXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1532 (MDXXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1517 (MDXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1508 (MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1502 (MDII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1501 (MDI) was a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar.
Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil. He was the first human in history to ever be on four continents, uniting all of them in his famous voyage of 1500, where he also conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal. While details of Cabral's early life remain unclear, it is known that he came from a minor noble family and received a good education. He was appointed to head an expedition to India in 1500, following Vasco da Gama's newly opened route around Africa. The undertaking had the aim of returning with valuable spices and of establishing trade relations in India—bypassing the monopoly on the spice trade then in the hands of Arab, Turkish and Italian merchants. Although the previous expedition of Vasco da Gama to India, on its sea route, had recorded signs of land west of the southern Atlantic Ocean, Cabral led the first known expedition to have touched four continents: Europe, Africa, America, and Asia.
Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America. These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World. This breakthrough inaugurated the period known as the Age of Discovery, which saw the colonization of the Americas, a related biological exchange, and trans-Atlantic trade. These events, the effects and consequences of which persist to the present, are often cited as the beginning of the modern era.
Prince Wiktoryn did not move to either the Ziębice-Oleśnica or Kłodzko estates of the Podiebrady family, although he was entitled to titles related to them. He died on September 30, 1500 in Cieszyn, but was buried in Kłodzko in the family crypts.