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Gregorian calendar | 1500 MD |
Ab urbe condita | 2253 |
Armenian calendar | 949 ԹՎ ՋԽԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6250 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1421–1422 |
Bengali calendar | 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 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.
The 1490s decade ran from January 1, 1490, to December 31, 1499.
Year 1503 (MDIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Year 1550 (MDL) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
1521 (MDXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1521st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 521st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 16th century, and the 2nd year of the 1520s decade.
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.
The 1530s decade ran from January 1, 1530, to December 31, 1539.
The 1550s decade ran from January 1, 1550, to December 31, 1559.
Year 1523 (MDXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
1570 (MDLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday in 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 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday 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.
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.