Year '1515' (
MDXV) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar.
Events of 1515
January - June
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June - Invasion of Persia by Sultan
Selim I of the
Ottoman Empire.
July - December
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September 5 - Selim captures the Persian capital of
Tabriz without encountering any resistance, but is unable to hold it.
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September 13 -
September 14 -
Battle of Marignano - The army of
Francis I of France defeats the
Swiss, thanks to the timely arrival of a Venetian army. Francis restores French control of
Milan.
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November 15 -
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a
Cardinal.
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December 24 -
Thomas Wolsey is named the English
Lord Chancellor.
Undated
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Ottoman Empire conquers
Kurdistan.
★ The
Manchester Grammar School is founded.
★ Conquistador
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded
Havana,
Cuba.
★ Yadigarid
Uzbeks found the
Khanate of Khiva.
Births
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January 4 -
Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (died
1565)
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February 14 -
Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (died
1576)
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February 18 -
Valerius Cordus, German physician (died
1544)
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February 24 -
Johann Weyer, German physician (died
1588)
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March 28 - Saint
Teresa of Ãvila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (died
1582)
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July 10 -
Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, (died
1584)
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July 21 -
Philip Neri, Italian churchman (died
1595)
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September 8 -
Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (died
1585)
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September 22 -
Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of
Henry VIII of England (died
1557)
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October 4 -
Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (died
1586)
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October 7 -
Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, sixth son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his wife Maria of Aragon (died
1540)
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October 8 -
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (died
1578)
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November 22 -
Mary of Guise, queen of
James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (died
1560)
★ ''date unknown''
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Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish peer (died
1558)
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Sebastian Castellio, rector of the College of Geneva (died
1563)
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Cristóvão da Costa, Portuguese doctor and natural historian (died
1580)
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Injong of Joseon, 12th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (died
1545)
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Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar (died
1572)
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Thomas Seckford, Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England (died
1587)
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Tomé de Sousa, first governor-general of Brazil (died
1573)
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Thomas Watson, Catholic Bishop (died
1584)
★ ''probable''
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★
Jean Maillard, French composer
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Laurence Nowell, antiquarian (died
1571)
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Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (died
1565)
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Nicholas Throckmorton, English churchman, last abbot of Westminster (died
1571)
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John Willock, Scottish reformer (died
1585)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
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January 1 - King
Louis XII of France (born
1462)
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January 15 -
Diebold Schilling the Younger, Swiss chronicler
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February 6 -
Aldus Manutius, Venetian printer (born c
1449)
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April 15 -
Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and the first Great Hetman of the Crown (born
1460)
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September 9 -
Joseph Volotsky, prominent caesaropapist ideologist of the Russian Orthodox Church who led the party defending monastic landownership
★ October -
Bartolomeo d'Alviano, Venetian general (born
1455)
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November 5 -
Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (born
1474)
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December 2 -
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (born
1453)
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December 16 -
Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese naval general (born
1453)
★ ''date unknown''
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Meñli I Giray, khan of the Crimean Khanate (born
1445)
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Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona (Ticino) (born
1435)
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Nezahualpilli, Aztec philosopher (born
1464)
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Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador (born
1466)
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Andreas Stoberl, Austrian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (born
1465)
★ ''probable''
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Vincenzo Foppa, Italian Renaissance painter (born
1430)
: ''See also .''
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