1500s may refer to: The period from 1500 to 1599, almost synonymous with the 16th century (1501–1600) 1500s (decade), the period from 1500 to 1509

The 1500s ran from January 1, 1500, to December 31, 1509. September 8, 1504: Michelangelo 's David is completed. January 5 – Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French. [1] January 26 – Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reaches the northern coast of Brazil. [2]

Aug 9, 2022 · St. Peter's Church started in Rome; designed and decorated by such artists and architects as Bramante, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Raphael, and Bernini before its completion in …

For about 50 years the main interest was in the brazilwood, a tree used for dye, which gave its name to the new colony. Henry VII died of tuberculosis at Richmond Palace on 21 April 1509 and was buried in the chapel he commissioned in Westminster Abbey next to his wife, Elizabeth.

Pre-Revolution Timeline - The 1500s. The explorers of the European powers spread out from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts looking for, well, anything to colonize, to find Fountains of Youth, to find a great river, and to begin a tenuous habitation with the …

Hernán Cortés defeats the Aztecs. (1519 - 1521). The Protestant Reformation. Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific, is killed by Philippine natives (1521). One of his ships under …

Apr 7, 2025 · By 1500 the population in most areas of Europe was increasing after two centuries of decline or stagnation. The bonds of commerce within Europe tightened, and the “wheels of commerce” (in the phrase of the 20th-century French historian Fernand Braudel) spun ever faster.

Mar 21, 2025 · In the 100 years from the mid-15th to the mid-16th century, a combination of circumstances stimulated men to seek new routes, and it was new routes rather than new lands that filled the minds of kings and commoners, scholars and seamen.

From South and Central Asia to Europe, Africa, and the Americas, each region was relatively well developed. The chapter highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each region to lay the ground for subsequent chapters. The world in the year 1500 was at …

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. Galileo found that the speed at which bodies fall does not depend on their weight and did extensive experimentation with pendulums. In 1593 Galileo invented the thermometer.