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Years: 1500Events Europe's population was ~60 million. Spielvogel January 5 Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French. April 22 Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil and claims the land for Port 1501Events Alexander becomes King of Poland. Births May 6 Pope Marcellus II November 25 The Confucian scholar Yi Hwang (Toegye) of Joseon Mary Boleyn, later mistress to both Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England. approximate date). Pedro de Mendoza, c 1502Events January 1 Rio de Janeiro discovered. in Russia, Ivan II the Great attacks Livonia without success. May 9 Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final trip to the " New World". May 21 Portuguese discover island of St Helena. December 3 1503Events January 20 Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive right to trade with the New World. April 21 Battle of Cerignola. Aragonese forces under Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba defeat the French under the Duc de Nemours, who is killed. Considered to be the 1504Events January 1 French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba. January 31 France cedes Naples to Aragon. February 29 Christopher Columbus uses his knowldege of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with suppl 1505Events Christ's College, Cambridge founded. Vasili III succeeds Ivan III as Grand Prince of Muscovy. Idiosa III of Chardonnay murdered. Arabs reach Comoros. Births John Knox Thomas Tallis Deaths Ivan III of Russia Jacob Obrecht 1505. 1506Events Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa''. Hernan Cortes, conquistador, arrives in the New World at Santo Domingo in Hispaniola, age 22. Births April 7: Francis Xavier, Jesuit Saint Possibly Lady Margaret Lee, sister of the poet Thomas Wyatt and 1507Events The western continent is named America on the maps of Martin Waldseemuller. Births December 18 Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord Anne Boleyn, later second Queen consort of Henry VIII of England. Another possible year of birth is 1502). Deaths March 1508 1509 1510
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