1500s

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 15th century16th century17th century
Decades: 1470s 1480s 1490s1500s1510s 1520s 1530s
Years: 1500 1501 1502 1503 1504 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509
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This is a list of events occurring in the 1500s, ordered by year.

1500

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1501

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1502

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1503

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1504

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1505

January–June

July–December

  • July 2Martin Luther, then 22, vows to become a monk in a moment of terror, due to a near lightning strike during a thunderstorm, near the village of Stotternheim.
  • July 17 – Luther enters the monastic life at an Augustinian cloister in Erfurt.
  • July 24 – Travelling to India, a group of Portuguese explorers sack the city-state of Kilwa in East Africa, killing the king for failing to pay tribute.
  • December 18 – John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lièges, Belgium, is executed.

Date unknown

1506

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1507

January–June

July–December

Date unknown

1508

January–June

July–December

1509

January–June

July–December

Date unknown


Significant people

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Albuquerque, Afonso de (2001). The commentaries of the great Afonso Dalboquerque, second viceroy of India, Adamant Media Corporation, p.xx. Issue 55. ISBN 1-4021-9511-7.
  2. ^ "Ascension History". Mysterra Magazine. http://www.mysterra.org/webmag/ascension-island/history.html. Retrieved 2011-12-09. 
  3. ^ "History of St. Lucia". http://aboutstlucia.sluhoo.com/The%20history%20of%20stlucia.html. Retrieved 2011-05-06. 
  4. ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 137–140. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. 
  5. ^ "Ascension History". Mysterra Magazine. http://www.mysterra.org/webmag/ascension-island/history.html. Retrieved 2011-12-09. 
  6. ^ Schulenburg, A. H. (Spring 2002). "The discovery of St Helena: the search continues". Wirebird: the Journal of the Friends of St Helena 24: 13–19. 
  7. ^ Leite, Duarte (1960). História dos Descobrimentos. II. Lisbon: Edições Cosmos. 
  8. ^ da Montalboddo, Fracanzio (1507). Paesi Nuovamente Retovati & Nuovo Mondo da Alberico Vesputio Fiorentino Intitulato. Venice. 

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