1507

Year '1507' was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1507

January - June

July - December

Undated

Arts and Literature

Births

Deaths

Events of 1507

January - June

★ April - Martin Waldseemüller publishes his world map, naming the new continent America in honour of Amerigo Vespucci.

July - December

★ August 20 - Guru Nanak Dev becomes leader of the Sikh religion.

Undated

★ King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar.

★ Leonardo da Vinci completes the ''Mona Lisa''.

★ Cardinal Cisneros is appointed major inquisitor of Castile.

★ The Portuguese occupy Mozambique and the islands of Socotra and Lamu.

★ Alfonso de Albuquerque becomes Viceroy of the Portuguese Empire in the East.

★ The Aztec New Fire ceremony is held for the last time (according to Bernardino de Sahagún.

Arts and Literature

★ Rafael: "Burial of Jesus"

Births

★ March 7 - Magdalena of Saxony (died 1534)

★ September 16 - Jiajing Emperor of China (died 1567)

★ October 29 - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (died 1582)

★ December 18 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (died 1551)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer (died 1576)

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★ Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (died 1566)

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★ Sir Ralph Sadler, English statesman (died 1587)

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★ Johannes Sturm, German educator (died 1589)

★ ''probable''

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★ Inés de Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (died 1580)
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Deaths

★ March 12 - Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (born 1475)

★ March 21 - Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (born 1471)

★ April 2 - Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (born 1416)

★ July 29 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (born 1459)

★ August 23 - Jean Molinet, French writer (born 1435)
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