In the year 1500, the last year of the 15th century, Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil, and claims the land for the Kingdom of Portugal (Apr 22), Portuguese navigator Diogo Dias discovers Madagascar (Aug 10), France and Spain agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them in the Treaty of Granada (Nov 11), Europe’s population is estimated at 56.7 million people - and all these fine people were born:

1500-0116 Antonio Musa Brassavola* Italian physician/performed the first successful tracheotomy - Ferrara (1555/c. 55) 1500-0224 Charles V* Holy Roman Emperor - Ghent, Flanders, Habsburg Netherlands (1558/58) 1500-0312 Reginald Pole* the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury - Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, Kingdom of England (1558/58) 1500-0423 Alexander Ales* theologian - Edinburgh, Scotland (1565/64) 1500-0423 Johann Stumpf* Swiss writer - Bruchsal, near Karlsruhe (1576/c.76) 1500-0720 Lorenzo Cybo* general in the Papal Army - Sampierdarena, Genoa(1549/48) 1500-0907 Sebastian Newdigate* Carthusian monk/martyr - Harefield, Middlesex, England (1535/34) 1500-1103 Benvenuto Cellini* goldsmith/ sculptor/musician etc - Florence, Republic of Florence (1571/70) 1500-1206 Nicolaus Mameranus* Luxembourg soldier/historian - Mamer, Duchy of Luzemburg, Holy Roman Empire (1567/66) Updated 15.3.2023-2 Search for another year here