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This is a list of events occurring in the 1500s, ordered by year. January 5 – Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan, but is soon driven out again by the French. January 26 – Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reaches the northern coast of Brazil. February 17 – Battle of Hemmingstedt: The Danish army fails to conquer the peasants' republic of Dithmarschen. April 22 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil and claims the land for the Kingdom of Portugal. He has 13 vessels with him. July 14 – the Muscovites defeat the Lithuanians and the Poles in the Battle of Vedrosha. August – Second Battle of Lepanto: The Turkish fleet of Kemal Reis defeats the Venetians. The Turks proceed to capture Modon and Coron, the "two eyes of the Republic." August 10 – Diogo Dias discovers an island which he names St Lawrence, later to be known as Madagascar November 11 – Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them. November 16 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara accedes to the throne of Japan. December 24 – The Siege of the Castle of St.

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