1501: The fuel system of the DHC Dash-7 quad-turboprop feederliner is 1501 gallons (Jet-A1). (PDR)
1502: Christopher Columbus left Cadiz on his final trip to the "New World" on May 11, 1502. (vanjeet)
1503: 1503 Tudor Ale is produced by the Kinstone Brewery in Chepstow. (Big Martin)
1504: Junction1504 is a housing estate in Charlotte, NC. (AlmondFacialBar)
1505: United Airlines flight UA 1505 goes from Newark, Noo Joizy to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago every night just after midnight. It is operated on a Boeing 737-300. (tetsabb)
1506: 15 June (15-06) is the day that annually celebrates wind energy, called Global Wind Day. (vanjeet)
1507: COL 1507 is an American reissue of The Beatles covering Leiber/Stoller's Kansas City. (AlmondFacialBar)
1508: In December 1508 Michelangelo began painting the Sistine Chapel. (Big Martin)
1509: Tun 1509 is a malt whisky from the Balvenie distillery which is "Deep and rich on the nose, with floral notes, sweet vanilla and orange peel. Velvety smooth to taste with tangy citrus, mellow cinnamon spice and blossom honey." (ellylles)
1510: In 1510, the Portuguese conquered Goa. (vanjeet)
1511: Cantina 1511 is on East Blvd, Charlotte, North Carolina. (tetsabb)
1512: Michelangelo finished painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in 1512. (vanjeet)
1513: Episode 1513 of Germany's leading soap, Lindenstraße, was the 2014 Christmas episode, broadcast on Sunday, 28th December, in which apparently Mutter Beimer once again single-handedly saves the world. (AlmondFacialBar)
1514: Nicolaus Copernicus completed Commentariolus in 1514, which contained the first outline of the heliocentric model. (vanjeet)
1515: 1515 appears to be the name of eateries in Walnut Creek CA, Denver and Shanghai. (tetsabb)
1516: Between April 2021 and March 2022, 1516 children under 15 years of age attended hospital for dog-related injuries. (Ed.)
1517: On the 31st of October, 1517, Martin Luther published his 95 Theses. (The story about posting them on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church is probably apocryphal.) (Strawberry)
1518: The Dancing Plague of Strasburg occured in 1518. (Big Martin)
1519: There is a Subway sandwiches store at 1519 50th Street in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Vestan Pance)
1520: 1520 is a pentagonal number for n = 32, given by the formula (3n2 - n)/2. It counts the number of points used to build nested pentagons, as illustrated here. (vanjeet)
1521: On 18th April, 1521, Martin Luther appeared before the Diet of Worms (which has absolutely nothing to do with Weight Watchers) under a charge of heresy for publishing the aforementioned 95 theses. (AlmondFacialBar)
1522: On January 9 1522 Pope Hadrian VI was elected. He was the only Dutch man ever to be elected to the papacy and was the last non-Italian pope until John-Paul II was elected in the 20th century. (Big Martin)
1523: "But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us." Matthew 15:23 (Vestan Pance)
1524: ISO 1524:2013 is a standard for determining the fineness of grind of paints, inks and related products. (vanjeet)
1525: According to Merriam-Webster the word "spatula" was first used in the English language in 1525. (vanjeet)
1526: 1526 = 182 + 192 + 202 + 212. (Ed.)
1527: Harley collection manuscript 1527 is a section of a Bible moralisee produced in France in the 2nd quarter of the 13th century. (Big Martin)
1528: Circular 18/1528 of the German federal parliament is a proposed legislative bill concerned with updating the list of safe countries of origin and better access to the employment market for asylum seekers and refugees. (AlmondFacialBar)
1529: United Airlines flight UA1529 is a daily scheduled flight from Houston, Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana (Vestan Pance)
1530: 1530 is a vampire number. That is a number with even digits that can be factorized into two numbers each containing half the original number of digits, such that they contain all the digits of the original number in any order. The factors are called fangs. 1530 = 30 x 51 (vanjeet)
1531: Lisbon was struck by a terrible earthquake that killed thousands of people in January 1531. (Big Martin)
1532: Stamford school was founded in 1532. (vanjeet)
1533: The first civil sodomy law in England was the Buggery Act of 1533. (Big Martin)
1534: "Unnamed 1534" is a glacier in the Lewis Range of mountains in Montana. (ellylles)
1535: The 1535 Society was formed as part of the Chapel Royal Appeal to promote understanding of the role in British history of Christian martyrs. (Big Martin)
1536: Anne Boleyn was executed in the Tower of London on the 19th of May, 1536. (Strawberry)
1537: Gene 1537 plays an important role in the mitochondrial respiration chain. (franticllama)
1538: The Holy League of 1538 was an alliance of Christian states arranged by Pope Paul III. (vanjeet)
1539: Bus route 1539 in the German-Danish border region goes from Pattburg border crossing to Flensburg city centre and back. (AlmondFacialBar)
1540: The New Balance 1540 running shoe is available in white with purple heather and purple cactus flower highlights. (Big Martin)
1541: The Commodore 1541 was the leading storage technology at the time, with an unbelievable capacity of 170 KB stored on a miniscule 5¼" floppy disk. (vanjeet)
1542: Bristol Cathedral has a café called Café 1542. (ellylles)
1543: In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, just in the nick of time, because in May of the same year he died. (AlmondFacialBar)
1544: Pacific Electric's railway loco 1544 is preserved at Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. (Big Martin)
1545: 1 Corinthians 15:45 refers to Jesus as the last Adam. (vanjeet)
1546: King Henry VIII founded Trinity College Cambridge in 1546 as one of the very last acts of his life. His interest was in establishing an institution that would produce the future leaders of the reformed church and formed Trinity through the amalgamation of two existing Colleges - King's Hall and Michaelhouse. (bemahan)
1547: IEEE 1547 is a standard for the interconnection of distributed generation resources into the power grid in the US. (vanjeet)
1548: On 5 January 2015, Magic 1548 (a local commercial radio station in the Liverpool area) was rebranded as Radio City 2. (ellylles)
1549: On January 15 2009, US Airways flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson River in New York following a bird strike shortly after take-off. All passengers and crew were picked up safely. (Big Martin)
1550: In 1550 Lukas Cranach the Elder painted his Self Portrait at the age of 77. (AlmondFacialBar)
1551: In 1551, Juan de Betanzos began to write his "Narrative of the Incas". (Strawberry)
1552: The Book of Common Prayer went through its first set of reformations in 1552. (vanjeet)
1553: Mil-Std-1553 is a standard which defines the characteristics of a 77-ohm high-speed serial databus for communication between and control of avionic equipment with physical and data redundancy. First used on the F-16 in the late 70s, mil-1553 databuses have featured in almost all US and UK fast jets and spacecraft, and also a large number of airliners, ever since. (PDR)
1554: New Belgium 1554 is a black lager. It uses a lager yeast strain and dark chocolatey malts. (Strawberry)
1555: In Australia, calling 1555 from your mobile phone will get you Vodafone customer care. (AlmondFacialBar)
1556: The Shaanxi earthquake ocurred in China on January 23 1556. It is believed that something like 830,000 people were killed as a result, making it the deadliest in history. (Big Martin)
1557: In 1557, the Welsh-born mathematician Robert Recorde published The Whetstone of Witte in London, containing the first recorded use of the equals sign and also the first use in English in plus and minus signs. (Strawberry)
1558: Lego item 1558-1 is a Mobile Command Trailer. (bemahan)
1559: The 1559 AD restaruant is in Uudaipur, Rajastan, India, providing Indian and Italian cuisine http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g297672-d1635585-Reviews-1559_AD-Udaipur_Rajasthan.html (tetsabb)
1560: The Geneva Bible was published in 1560. (Strawberry)
1561: Attendance at the Vanarama Conference match between Dartford and Wrexham on Saturday August 9th 2014 was 1561. Wrexham won 2-1. (Vestan Pance)
1562: The 18th of January 1562 was the first performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Elizabeth I. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English-language play to employ blank verse. (Strawberry)
1563: It is 1563 km from Paris to Alicante. (Vestan Pance)
1564: 1564A is an SOS phone on the Southbound M3 between Junctions 4A and 5 in Hampshire. 1564B is level with it on the Northbound side. (tetsabb)
1565: The city of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (now known as Rio de Janeiro) was founded by the Portuguese in Brazil in 1565. (vanjeet)
1566: NGC 1566 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado. (AlmondFacialBar)
1567: An advertisement for England's first ever National Lottery was issued in 1567 by Queen Elizabeth I. (ellylles)
1568: The Visitation of London in the Year 1568 is a book of descent, arms, and crests. (vanjeet)
1569: 1569 was the year of publication of the first complete Spanish translation of the Bible, Reina-Valera (the "Bible of The Bear"). (Strawberry)
1570: Choral music nerds may be interested to know that 1570 marks the approximate beginning of the late Italian madrigal. (AlmondFacialBar)
1571: 1-5-7-1 is a set of calling features in the UK provided by BT. (vanjeet)
1572: FDA form 1572 concerns itself with the evaluation of cancer therapies. (AlmondFacialBar)
1573: The 1573 Bar & Grill in Leicester is in a Grade II listed building - one of the oldest schoolhouses in England. (Big Martin)
1574: On the 30th of August, 1574, Guru Ram Das became the fourth of the Sikh gurus. (Strawberry)
1575: 1575 Njáll is an Icelandic stern trawler registered in Reykjavik under RE 275. (AlmondFacialBar)
1576: The painter Titian died in 1576. (Big Martin)
1577: The WED-15-77 was a repair droid that served Owen Lars and later, Luke Skywalker, on Tatooine. (vanjeet)
1578: 1578 saw the last known outbreak of the highly unpleasant sweating sickness in England. (AlmondFacialBar)
1579: In 1579 the Siege of Maastricht, a battle of the Eighty Years' War, took place from March 12 to July 1. (Burgess Shale)
1580: WVKO - The Praise is a Gospel music station broadcasting from Columbus, Ohio, on 1580 AM. (AlmondFacialBar)
1581: Commodore 1581 was a 3.5" DSDD floppy drive used on C64 home PCs. (Efros)
1582: The year 1582 saw the first areas switching from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. (Big Martin)
1583: Philip Sidney was knighted in 1583. (Strawberry)
1584: In 1584, Ivan the Terrible, the ruler of Russia since 1533, died on March 18/28 (OS/NS). (Burgess Shale)
1585: Yesterday, over 600 people beat the previous world record by building 1,585 snowmen in the Japanese city of Iiyama. (Big Martin)
1586: Philip Sidney died on the 22nd of September, 1586. (Strawberry)
1587: Mary, Queen of Scots was executed in 1587. (bemahan)
1588: On the 7th of October, 1588, the first biography of Nicolaus Copernicus (died 1543) was completed by Bernadino Baldi. (Strawberry)
1589: William Lee of Calverton near Nottingham invented the stocking frame knitting machine in 1589. (Big Martin)
1590: The Treaty of Istanbul (Not Constantinople) was signed in 1590. (vanjeet)
1591: The English poet Robert Herrick was born in August 1591. (Strawberry)
1592: May 29th 1592 was the date of the Battle of Sacheon, when the Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repelled a Japanese fleet. It was the first use of the Korean Turtle ship. (bemahan)
1593: In 1593 England experienced an outbreak of the Bubonic Plague that killed more than 10000 people. (AlmondFacialBar)
1594: Saint Hyacinth was canonised on the 17th of April, 1594. (Strawberry)
1595: The 1595 Club is devoted to Western martial arts. (Big Martin)
1596: The first complete edition of The Faerie Queen in six books was published in 1596. (Strawberry)
1597: 1597 is an emirp ("prime" backwards), that is, a non-palindromic prime number which is prime when reversed as well. (vanjeet)
1598: Case [2002] EWCA Civ 1598 of the England and Wales Court of Appeal dismissed a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's application for relief. (AlmondFacialBar)
1599: Edmund Spenser died on the 13th of January, 1599. (Strawberry)
1600: The Nokia 1600 is a highly resilient and durable ultrabasic mobile phone originally intended for markets in the developing world. (AlmondFacialBar)
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