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Year 1500 ( MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1500
Undated
Europe's population estimated at 567 million (Spielvogel).
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.
The Luba people appear in the Congo-Kinshasa after a secession from a clan of the Sonhoy people.
Births
January 6 - John of Avila, Spanish mystic and saint (died 1569)
February 22 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
February 24 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1558)
April 12 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (died 1574)
April 23 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (died 1565)
May 17 - Frederick II, Duke of Mantua, (died 1540)
November 1 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (died 1571)
date unknown
probable
Deaths
May 29
June 19 - Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (born 1499)
September 12 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (born 1443)
September 15 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c1420)
October 1 - John Alcock, English churchman (born c1430)
November14-Sr.Evan MacGillivray, Explorer from scotland sailed for england (born 1462) died of black death
October 21 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (born 1442)
date unknown
probable
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