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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century Decades: 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s Years: 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503 - 1504 - 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509 Events January 1 - French troops surrender Gaeta[?] to the Spanish under Cordoba. January 31 - France cedes Naples to Aragon Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes his sculpture of David. Moldavia, Stephan IIIrd[?] the great fights against Turkey and Poland. Baber besieges and captures Kabul. Ferdinand II of Aragon becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III. Christopher Columbus return to spain from his fourth voyage where he and his yonger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama. Aldo Manuzio publishes Demosthenes. Births Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss reformer. Michele Ghislieri, becomes Pope Pius V in 1566. Matthew Parker, becomes Archbishop of Canterbury in 1559. Deaths Isabella of Castile, Queen of Castile, the wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the mother of Catherine of Aragon, and the patron of Christopher Columbus. Philibert II of Savoy, Duke of Savoy Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, Astronomer and teacher of Nicolaus Copernicus Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s
Years: 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503 - 1504 - 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509
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