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.


1507: Mona Lisa.

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.
1507: Socotra island.








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 - ÅŒuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (died 1551)

★ ''date unknown''


Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer (died 1576)


Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (died 1566)


★ Sir Ralph Sadler, English statesman (died 1587)


Johannes Sturm, German educator (died 1589)

★ ''probable''


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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