1500

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  • Europe's population was ~60 million. (Spielvogel)
  • January 5 - Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French.
  • January 26 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to discover Brazil.
  • April 21 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil and claims the land for Portugal.
  • November 11 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
  • Emperor Go-Kashiwabara ascends to the throne of Japan.
  • Battle of Hemmingstedt: The Danish army fails to conquer the peasants' republic of Dithmarschen.
  • Second Battle of Lepanto - The Turkish fleet of Kemal Re'is defeats the Venetians. The Turks proceed to capture Modon, Lepanto, and Koron.
  • The Luo, a Nilotic people from modern Sudan, settle the Cwezi states, establishing the state of Buganda. (approximate date)
  • Diogo Dias is the first European to see Madagascar.

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