** Netherlands — voltage change 3 kV DC – 1500 V DC

MPLS recognizes that small ATM cells are not needed in the core of modern networks, since modern optical networks () are so fast ( at 40 Gbit / s and beyond ) that even full-length 1500 byte packets do not incur significant real-time queuing delays ( the need to reduce such delays — e. g., to support voice traffic — was the motivation for the cell nature of ATM ).

Competitions were held around tracks of varying lengths — the 1885 match between Axel Paulsen and Remke van der Zee was skated on a track of 6 / 7 mile ( 1400 metres )— but the 400 metre track was standardised by the ISU in 1892, along with the standard distances for world championships, 500 m, 1500 m, 5000 m and 10, 000 m. Skaters started in pairs, each to their own lane, and changed lanes for every lap to ensure that each skater completed the same distance.

* c. 2750 BC — 1500 BC — Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, is built.

* c. 1500 BC: The Phoenicians develop an alphabet — see Timeline of communication technology.

* Before 1630 BC – 1500 BC — Landscape ( Spring fresco ), wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction from Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades, is made.

* 1700 – 1500 BC — Hurrian conquests.

* c. 1550 BC – 1500 BC — Dagger blades with lion hunt, from Shaft Grave IV, Grave Circle A, at Mycenae, Greece, are made.

* 1500 — Pedro Álvares Cabral discovered Brazil on his way to India.

* 1500 — Gaspar Corte-Real made his first voyage to Newfoundland, formerly known as Terras Corte-Real.

* 1500 — Diogo Dias discovered an island they named after St Lawrence after the saint on whose feast day they had first sighted the island later known as Madagascar

* c. 1500 BC — Mycenaean civilization starts in Ancient Greece.

* c. 1500 BC — Eleusinian Mysteries start in Ancient Greece.

* 1500 BC – 500 BC — Vedas are composed.

In India, ghee has been a symbol of purity and an offering to the gods — especially Agni, the Hindu god of fire — for more than 3000 years ; references to ghee's sacred nature appear numerous times in the Rigveda, circa 1500 – 1200 BCE.

A San Francisco newspaper demanded that he cut his estimate of the rim height — at 1500 feet ( 450 m ), already under by half — in half again before they would published it.

In the Middle Ages ( CE 500 – 1500 ), the bourgeois usually was a self-employed businessman — proprietor, merchant, banker, entrepreneur, et alii — whose economic role in society was being the financial intermediary to the feudal landlord and the peasant who worked the fief, the land of the lord.

His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500 — 1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete.

" Arrival of the English Ambassadors " by Vittore Carpaccio, painted between 1495 and 1500 — though ostensibly part of a series of paintings on the life of Saint Ursula, this actually depicts the developing diplomatic practices of the Republic of Venice in the painter's own time

The " natural " mortality rate of childbirth — where nothing is done to avert maternal death — has been estimated as being 1500 deaths per 100, 000 births.

In 1888 and 1889, Brazil went through the most revolutionary and far-reaching social, economic and political changes of its history since the Discovery, in 1500.

* In 1500, Pedro Álvares Cabral reached Brazil.

* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.

Depiction of the Crux ( labelled ' Las Guardas ') by physician-astronomer Mestre João Faras in his letter of May 1, 1500, to King Manuel I of Portugal from the newly discovered land of Brazil

Faras sketched and described the constellation ( calling it " Las Guardas ") in a letter written on the beaches of Brazil on May 1, 1500, to the Portuguese monarch.

* 1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.

The discovery of Brazil in 1500 and the need for labor to work on the Portuguese plantations in Brazil, Cape Verde and São Tomé led Portugal to look for more slaves.

* Pêro Vaz de Caminha ( – 1500 ), Portuguese explorer that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil.

* 1500: Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón encounters Brazil but is prevented from claiming it by the Treaty of Tordesillas.

* 1500: Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal.

* March 2 – Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil ( b. c. 1500 )

This flotilla first reached the coast of Brazil, landing there in 1500, and then continued eastwards to India.

* Colonial Brazil ( 1500 – 1815 ) became a Kingdom, United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil () comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the European invasion around 1500.

Around 1973, all Brazilian Beetles ( 1300 and 1500 series ) were updated with the 1968-up sheet metal, bumpers, and four-lug rims ; although the five-stud rims and " bugeye " headlights were produced as late as 1972 ( the base VW 1200 and 1300 manufactured in Brazil was similar to the 1964 European / U. S. 1200 until the 1970 model year but came with vented wheels since the mid-1960s ).

Explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral landed on April 22, 1500 in what is today Porto Seguro, Brazil.

The territory which would come to be known as Brazil was claimed by Portugal on 22 April 1500, when the navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed on its coast.

The Colony of Brazil ( Portuguese: Colónia do Brasil ; Vice-Reino do Brasil ; Principado do Brasil ), later the Viceroyalty of Brazil, and royaly the Principality of Brazil, comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to kingdom alongside Portugal as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.

Intermediate results were binary, written onto paper sheets by electrostatically modifying the resistance at 1500 locations to represent 30 of the 50 bit numbers ( one equation ).

One of the first great autobiographies of the Renaissance is that of the sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini ( 1500 – 1571 ), written between 1556 and 1558, and entitled by him simply Vita ( Italian: Life ).

The Seven Sorrows Polyptych, commissioned by Frederick III of Saxony in 1496, was executed by Dürer and his assistants c. 1500.

When the site was excavated by Soviet archaeologists during 1941-45, they realized that they had discovered a building absolutely unique for the area: a large ( 1500 square meters ) Chinese-style, likely Han Dynasty era ( 206 BCE – 220 CE ) palace.

* 1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.

But during the past 15 years, it has been reported in women taking calcium supplements above the recommended range of 1200 to 1500 mg daily, for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, and is exacerbated by dehydration.

The Virgin Islands were first settled by the Arawak from South America around 100 BC ( though there is some evidence of Amerindian presence on the islands as far back as 1500 BC ).

It can be produced by compressing other boron phases to 12 – 20 GPa and heating to 1500 – 1800 ° C ; it remains stable after releasing the temperature and pressure.

Bernard exorcising a possession, altarpiece by Jörg Breu the Elder, c. 1500.

Single-walled nanotubes are dropping precipitously in price, from around $ 1500 per gram as of 2000 to retail prices of around $ 50 per gram of as-produced 40 – 60 % by weight SWNTs as of March 2010.

Appear mostly occupying favorable areas named geographically Umbrias, this is north hillsides or slopes of the mountainous areas that are oriented behind the sun, be cause the islands are in the northern hemisphere, between 600 and 1500 meters, thus benefiting from the humidity provided by the trade winds to form such a sea of clouds.

Columbus's strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits which Columbus and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.

Sketch by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

File: Catherine of Siena Demons. jpg |" St Catherine and the Demons " by an unknown artist, c. 1500, tempera on panel.

In 2011 Conservation International listed the top 10 most endangered forests, characterized by having all lost 90 % or more of their original habitat, and each harboring at least 1500 endemic plant species ( species found nowhere else in the world ).

In 1500, German alchemist Hieronymus Braunschweig published Liber de arte destillandi ( The Book of the Art of Distillation ) the first book solely dedicated to the subject of distillation, followed in 1512 by a much expanded version.

Includes evidence that the ' growth ' in Delta-T is being modified by an oscillation with a wavelength around 1500 years ; if that is true, then during the next few centuries Delta-T values will increase more slowly than is envisaged.

Between the 4th and 16th centuries, the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about March 21 in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March.

The letter ð was used throughout the Anglo-Saxon era, but gradually fell out of use in Middle English, practically disappearing altogether by 1300 ; þ survived longer, ultimately being replaced by the modern digraph th by about 1500.

The flute has also always been an essential part of Indian culture and mythology, and the cross flute believed by several accounts to originate in India as Indian literature from 1500 BCE has made vague references to the cross flute.

The following year he was commissioned a fresco of the Universal Judgement for the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, completed by Albertinelli and Giuliano Bugiardini when Baccio became a Dominican friar on July 26, 1500.