History
1500 
World
General
Population: 460 Million*- Entertainment: Writers includes Erasmus Adagia book of proverbs,
Art includes Hieronymus Bosch "Ship of Fools", Botticelli "Mystic Nativity", Michelangelo "Madonna and Child"
Music includes Ottavio de' Petrucci - prints music with moveable type, Josquin des Pres at court of Louis VII as composer, Songs of mastersingers reformed to accept secular in Nuremberg - Fashion: End of early renaissance – start of middle (high) renaissance
End of period of mostly Gothic architecture and start of period of Renaissance architecture - Geography: Juan de la Cosa creates map of new world
- Medicine: Book of first herbal medicines created
First recorded Caesarean operation performed on living woman by pig gelder Jakob Nufer in Switzerland - Religion: Pope Alexander VI proclaims jubilee year and imposes a title for crusade against Turks
- Science: da Vinci proposes that marine fossils not carried by the flood
- Technology: Black-lead pencils used in England
First manufacture of faience and majolica potteries
Germany - Peter Henlein invents the pocket watch
Leonardo Da Vinci conducts flight experiments - Deaths: Alfonso of Naples murdered, Diaz drowns near Cape of Good Hope
Africa
- General: Agriculture replaces hunting in Africa
- West Africa: Songhai empire in W Africa expands, trade aids growth of Hausa states in W Africa
Malia Empire replaced by Songhai Empire in Africa
Americas
- General: Vespucci and De Ojeda return on their voyage that discovered Amazon river
Gaspar de Corte-Real lands in New World
Incan and Aztec empires decline - Brazil: Blown off course on way to India - Cabral discovers Brazil and claims it for Portugal - trade links established
Pinzon lands on Brazilian coast at Cape Santo Agostinho - Canada: Extinction of Norse Greenland colony
- England: Fatal plague forces Henry VII and court to flee to Calais
- North America: Mississippi Mound Culture declines in New World
Apache and Navajo establish in SW U.S. - Peru: Inca ruler dies, war for throne
- Scotland: Time of Scottish cannibal Sawney Beane clan
Asia
- Burma: End of Mon kingdoms in Burma to 1700s
- Japan: Tsunami
Europe
- General: First regular postal connection between Vienna and Brussels
Treaty of Granada Louis of France and Ferdinand of Spain divide Naples - Belgium: Antwerp Cathedral finished
- England: First annual horserace meetings at Chester
Wynken de Worde sets up printing press in Fleet Street London – street is center of printing for next 500 years - France: Louis XII claims both Naples and Milan and occupies them
Game of real tennis becomes very popular in France - German States: (HRE) Diet of Augsburg establishes Council of Regency for administering the Holy Roman Empire and divides Germany into six "circles" or regions
First edition of German Schwank book
Silver guilders introduced in Germany and remain in use in Austria until 1892 - Holland: Dutch miracle play created
- Italian States: Lodovico Sforza recovers Milan from the French – two months later the town is reconquered – Sforza captured and imprisoned in France
Alfonso of Naples (second husband of Lucrezia Borgia) murdered
Aldus of Venice founds academy for study of Greek classics and invents italics
First commercial colleges founded in Venice
Louis XII claims both Naples and Milan and occupies them
Louis and Ferdinand V agree to divide Naples - Spain: Dom Miguel – heir to thrones of Spain and Portugal dies leaving Juana and Philip heirs to Spain
University of Valencia founded
Ferdinand of Aragon suppresses Moorish revolt in Granada
Columbus arrested, put in irons – brought to Spain and rehabilitated - Portugal: Manuel of Portugal marries Maria Infanta of Spain
Pacific
- Easter Island: village of oval stone houses built on Easter Island
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