Explore 138 historical events from 1500–1509.
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels…
In Brussels, Prince Charles I is crowned Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders, a year after inheriting the title.
George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau, and also a Protestant Reformer. After 1544 he becam…
George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince (died 1553)
The Jiajing Emperor, personal name Zhu Houcong, was the 12th emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1521 to 1567. He succeeded his cousin, the Zhengde Emperor.
Jiajing Emperor of China (died 1567)
Sir Francis Bigod was an English nobleman who was the leader of Bigod's rebellion.
Francis Bigod, English noble (died 1537)
Viglius was the name taken by Wigle Aytta van Zwichem, a Dutch statesman and jurist, a Frisian by birth.
Viglius, Dutch politician (died 1577)
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba, known as the Grand Duke of Alba in Spain and Portugal and as the Iron Duke or shortly 'Alva' in the Netherlands and Belgium…
Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (died 1582)
Pietro Crinito, known as Crinitus, or Pietro Del Riccio Baldi, was a Florentine humanist scholar and poet who was a disciple of Poliziano.
Crinitus, Italian scholar and academic (born 1475)
The Kingdom of Hormuz was a kingdom ruled by a dynasty of southern Arab origin. It was located in the eastern side of the Persian Gulf and extended as far as Bahrain in the west at…
The Kingdom of Hormuz recognises the sovereignty of the Portuguese king following a battle with the forces of Afonso…
Guillaume Rondelet, also known as Rondeletus/Rondeletius, was Regius professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in southern France and Chancellor of the University betw…
Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (died 1566)
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola, was one of the great Italian architects of 16th-century Mannerism. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Capr…
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect who designed the Church of the Gesù (died 1573)
Martin Behaim, also known as Martin von Behaim and by various forms of Martin of Bohemia, was a German textile merchant and cartographer. He served John II of Portugal as an advise…
Martin Behaim, German-Bohemian geographer and astronomer (born 1459)
John V of Saxe-Lauenburg was the eldest son of Duke Bernard II of Saxe-Lauenburg and Adelheid of Pomerania-Stolp, daughter of Duke Bogislaus VIII of Pomerania-Stolp. He succeeded h…
John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (born 1439)
Jean Molinet was a French poet, chronicler, and composer. He is best remembered for his prose translation of Roman de la rose.
Jean Molinet, French poet and composer (born 1435)
Cecily of York, also known as Cecelia, was the third daughter of King Edward IV of England and his queen consort Elizabeth Woodville.
Cecily of York, English princess (born 1469)
A cornerstone is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation. All other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the enti…
The cornerstone of the current St
The Lisbon massacre started on Sunday, 19 April 1506 in Lisbon when a crowd of churchgoers attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom they suspected were Jews. The…
The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which about two thousand Jews who had been forcibly converted to Christianity are slaught
The Lisbon massacre started on Sunday, 19 April 1506 in Lisbon when a crowd of churchgoers attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom they suspected were Jews. The…
The three-day Lisbon Massacre comes to an end with the slaughter of over 1,900 suspected Jews by Portuguese Catholics
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when th…
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk.
Louis II was King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526. He died during the Battle of Mohács fighting the Ottomans, whose victory led to the Ottoman annexation of large…
Louis II of Hungary (died 1526)
Franciscus Sonnius was a theologian during the time of the Catholic Reformation, the first bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch and later the first bishop of Antwerp. His family name was Van…
Franciscus Sonnius, Dutch counter-Reformation theologian (died 1576)
Sultan Husayn Bayqara Mirza was the Timurid ruler of Herat from 1469 until May 4, 1506, with a brief interruption in 1470.
Husayn Mirza Bayqara, Timurid ruler of Herat (born 1438)
Alexander Agricola was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance writing in the Franco-Flemish style. A prominent member of the Grande chapelle, the Habsburg musical establishmen…
Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (born c. 1445)
Alexander Jagiellon was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501 until his death in 1506. He was the fourth son of Casimir IV Jagiellon and a member of the Ja…
King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (born 1461)
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish transatlantic voyages in the name of the Catholic Monarchs, opening…
Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer, early European explorer of the Americas (born 1451)