1500
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 1500 by topic |
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| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art |
| Leaders |
| Political entities - State leaders - Colonial governors - Religious leaders |
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| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1500 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1500 MD |
| Ab urbe condita | 2253 |
| Armenian calendar | 949 ԹՎ ՋԽԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6250 |
| Bengali calendar | 907 |
| Berber calendar | 2450 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Hen. 7 – 16 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2044 |
| Burmese calendar | 862 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7008–7009 |
| Chinese calendar |
己未年 (Earth Goat) 4196 or 4136 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4197 or 4137 |
| Coptic calendar | 1216–1217 |
| Discordian calendar | 2666 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1492–1493 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5260–5261 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1556–1557 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1421–1422 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4600–4601 |
| Holocene calendar | 11500 |
| Igbo calendar | 500–501 |
| Iranian calendar | 878–879 |
| Islamic calendar | 905–906 |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiō 9 (明応９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1417–1418 |
| Julian calendar | 1500 MD |
| Korean calendar | 3833 |
| Minguo calendar | 412 before ROC 民前412年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 32 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2042–2043 |
Year 1500 (MD) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
The year was seen as being especially important by many Christians in Europe, who thought it would bring the beginning of the end of the world. Their belief was based on the phrase "half-time after the time", when the apocalypse was due to occur, which appears in the Book of Revelation and was seen as referring to 1500. The year 1500 is also considered the complete end of the Middle Ages.
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