1500

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
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April 22:Pedro Álvares Cabral and his crew land in Brazil and claim it for Portugal
Europe in 1500
1500 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1500
MD
Ab urbe condita2253
Armenian calendar949
ԹՎ ՋԽԹ
Assyrian calendar6250
Balinese saka calendar1421–1422
Bengali calendar907
Berber calendar2450
English Regnal year15 Hen. 7 – 16 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar2044
Burmese calendar862
Byzantine calendar7008–7009
Chinese calendar己未年 (Earth Goat)
4197 or 3990
    — to —
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
4198 or 3991
Coptic calendar1216–1217
Discordian calendar2666
Ethiopian calendar1492–1493
Hebrew calendar5260–5261
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1556–1557
 - Shaka Samvat1421–1422
 - Kali Yuga4600–4601
Holocene calendar11500
Igbo calendar500–501
Iranian calendar878–879
Islamic calendar905–906
Japanese calendarMeiō 9
(明応9年)
Javanese calendar1417–1418
Julian calendar1500
MD
Korean calendar3833
Minguo calendar412 before ROC
民前412年
Nanakshahi calendar32
Thai solar calendar2042–2043
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
February 17: Battle of Hemmingstedt

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.

  1. ^ Andrew Graham-Dixon, Art of Germany (2011), United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation[need quotation to verify]
  2. ^ "History of Europe - The Middle Ages". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on February 6, 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2021.