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| 1500 by topic |
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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 | 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.
- ^ Andrew Graham-Dixon, Art of Germany (2011), United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation[need quotation to verify]
- ^ "History of Europe - The Middle Ages". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on February 6, 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2021.