1500 To 15091500c - Black lead pencils were first used in England.
c - Europestatus Population c.60 Million.
c - By now approximately 35,000 books have been printed, some 10 million copies.
c - Islamic Political Dominance as far East as India u.1920
x - Japan Go-Kashiwabara becomes emperor.
x - Postal service between Vienna and Brussels established
x - Pope Alexander VI imposes a tithe for crusade against Turks.
x - Medicine Swiss pig gelder Jakob Nufer performs the first recorded human Caesarian operation.
jan 05 - Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French.
jun 25 - Pope Alexander VI accepts Treaty of Granada.
1501x - Papal bull orders the burning of any books questioning Church's authority
x - Erasmus's Enchiridion promotes a Christianity based on the Sermon of the Mount
x - Michaelangelo completes Pieta
x - Music printed for the first time by use of movable type
x - Vasco da Gama was sent out with 20 ships to punish the Arabs and to close the Red Sea, in order to cut off the trade route through Egypt to Alexandria.
may 00 - The second voyage of Amerigo Vespucci.Sailed in the service of Portugual and traveled along the coastline of Brazil. It was from a published account of this voyage that geographer Martin Waldseemü;ller says that the New World be calledAmerica in 1507
oct 13 - Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente.recognizes French conquests in Upper Italy
1502x - Japan Murata Shuko, considered the father of the Tea Ceremony, dies.
x - Mexico Moctezuma II becomes tlatoani, ruler of Tenochtitlan and a vast empire in Mexico
jan 01 - Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro.
feb 12 - Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism.
aug 08 - England The marriage of Henry VII's oldest daughter, Margeret, to James IV, King of Scotland.
sep 18 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and final voyage.
oct 10 - Classes began at the University of Wittenberg. The Elector of Saxony and Martin Luther's prince, Frederick the Wise, founded the university.
dec 31 - Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, occupies Urbino.
1503x - Canterbury Cathedral completed after 436 years of construction
x - Pocket handkerchief comes into use
x - Leonardo Da Vinci's "La Gioconda" u.1505
aug 18 - Pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo de Borja, Spanish Pope r.1492-1503, dies. re.List of Popes
sep 22 - Pius III is elected pope u.oct 18 1503 re.List of Popes
nov 11 - Julius II becomes pope u.feb 21 1513
1504x - Venice sends ambassadors to Sultan of Turkey, proposing construction of a Suez Canal
x - Japan First year of Eish?
nov 26 - Spain Queen Isabella dies after illness.
1505c - Nicolo Machiavelli b.1469-d.1527 writes The Prince.
x - John Knox, the leader of the Scottish Reformation, is born
x - Russia Vasili IIIBasil III becomes Tsar.u.1533 List of TsarsThe reign is fairly quiet as Vasili consolidates the gains of his father, Ivan the Great and reduces Pskov 1510, Smolensk 1514, and Riazan 1517.
spr 00 - Christopher Columbus is called to Ferdinand's court to ask to be restored as governor of Hispaniola. The king hears the explorer's petition, but does nothing.
jul 17 - Germany Keeping his word to St. Anna, Martin Luther b.nov 10 1483-d.feb 18 1546 entered the Augustinian monastic order at Erfurt.He takes his monk's vow in 1506.
1506x - Japan Asakura Norikage and the Ikko Ikki of Kaga clash at Kuzuryugawa.
x - William Tyndale a.c.12 enters Magdalen College at Oxford
x - Pope Julius II orders work on St. Peter's in Rome
may 20 - Spain Christopher Columbus,explorer, dies in poverty, at 55 after illness.
oct 07 - Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna.
1507x - Japan Hosokawa Masamoto is assassinated by his adopted son Sumiyuki.
x - New geography by Waldseem?ller proposes the New World be called 'America' after Amerigo Vespucci.
x - Henry VIII becomes King of England r.u.jan 28 1547.
mar 12 - Cesare Borgia b.sep 1475 , cardinal/soldier/politician, dies at the siege of Viana at 31.
apr 03 - Martin Luther b.nov 10 1483-d.feb 18 1546 received his ordination as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church.
may 02 - Martin Luther b.nov 10 1483-d.feb 18 1546 celebrates first Mass
1508x - Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel ceiling.
x - Japan O?chi Yoshioki restores the shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane in Kyoto, and is named Deputy Kanrei.
x - Japan Shimazu Tadamasa commits suicide and is succeded by Tadaharu.
aug 12 - Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico.
1509x - Luther b.nov 10 1483-d.feb 18 1546 visits Rome
x - Erasmus writes Praise of Folly at Thomas More's home
mar 09 - Martin Luther b.nov 10 1483-d.feb 18 1546 received his Bachelor's degree.
apr 22 - Henry VIII ascended to throne of England.
apr 27 - Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice.
jun 11 - England Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon, The widow of his brother Arthur.
jun 24 - Henry VIII crowned King of England.
jul 10 - France John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian, is born.
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