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 …

Galileo Galilei became a champion of the new sciences, invented the first thermometer and made substantial contributions in the fields of physics and astronomy, becoming a major figure in the Scientific Revolution in Europe.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Luther bears witness to a Protestant conscience, stating at Worms: 'Here I stand, I can not do otherwise.'

Apr 2, 2018 · In 1589, English pamphleteer named John Stubbs was sentenced by Queen Elizabeth to have his hand severed for seditious writing, and before the ax fell, he cried out, “My calamity is at hand!” – thus becoming the only known victim of Elizabeth to incorporate a pun at his dismemberment. He then fainted. 2.