1507
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s |
Years: | 1504 1505 1506 – 1507 – 1508 1509 1510 |
1507 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 1507 MDVII |
Ab urbe condita | 2260 |
Armenian calendar | 956 ԹՎ ՋԾԶ |
Assyrian calendar | 6257 |
Bengali calendar | 914 |
Berber calendar | 2457 |
English Regnal year | 22 Hen. 7 – 23 Hen. 7 |
Buddhist calendar | 2051 |
Burmese calendar | 869 |
Byzantine calendar | 7015–7016 |
Chinese calendar | 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4203 or 4143 — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4204 or 4144 |
Coptic calendar | 1223–1224 |
Discordian calendar | 2673 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1499–1500 |
Hebrew calendar | 5267–5268 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1563–1564 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1429–1430 |
- Kali Yuga | 4608–4609 |
Holocene calendar | 11507 |
Igbo calendar | 507–508 |
Iranian calendar | 885–886 |
Islamic calendar | 912–913 |
Japanese calendar | Eishō 4 (永正4年) |
Julian calendar | 1507 MDVII |
Korean calendar | 3840 |
Minguo calendar | 405 before ROC 民前405年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2049–2050 |
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Year 1507 (MDVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
January–June[edit]
- April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his Cosmographiae Introductio ("Introduction to Universal Cosmography") and accompanying wall map, the first to show the Americas as a separate continent, naming them in honour of Amerigo Vespucci, his friend and idol.
July–December[edit]
- July 4 – Martin Luther is ordained a priest of the Catholic Church.
- August 20 – Guru Nanak Dev becomes the first guru and leader of the Sikh religion.
Date unknown[edit]
- The Timurid dynasty ends when Uzbeks under Muhammad Shaybani capture the capital, Herat, and the Emir Badi' al-Zaman Mirza flees.
- The Portuguese occupy Mozambique and the islands of Socotra and Lamu.
- Cardinal Cisneros is appointed major inquisitor of Castile.
- King Henry VII of England prosecutes lords for keeping private armies, which might threaten his régime.[citation needed]
- King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar.
- Raphael paints The Deposition, among other works.
- The Aztec New Fire ceremony is held for the last time (according to Bernardino de Sahagún).
Births[edit]
- January 1 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (d. 1567)
- January 14
- Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (d. 1578)
- Luca Longhi, Italian painter (d. 1580)
- January 18 – Ferdinando Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno (d. 1572)
- January 25 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (d. 1568)
- February 11 – Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, Russian Orthodox monk (d. 1569)
- February 21 – James, Duke of Rothesay, Scottish prince (d. 1508)
- March 7 – Magdalena of Saxony (d. 1534)
- March 25 – Thomas White, English politician (d. 1566)
- March 29 – Henry II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels and Count of Glatz (d. 1548)
- April 13 – Konrad Hubert, German theologian and hymnwriter (d. 1577)
- June 5 – Ferdinand of Portugal, Duke of Guarda and Trancoso, Portuguese nobleman (d. 1534)
- June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and Knight of Malta (d. 1566)
- June 26 – Marie of Baden-Sponheim, Margravine of Baden by birth and by marriage Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1580)
- July 25 – Chamaraja Wodeyar IV, King of Mysore (d. 1576)
- August 2 – William Waldegrave, English Member of Parliament (d. 1554)
- August 15 – George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince (d. 1553)
- September 16 – Jiajing Emperor of China (d. 1567)
- September 27 – Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (d. 1566)
- October 1
- Johannes Sturm, German educator (d. 1589)
- Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
- October 4 – Francis Bigod, British noble (d. 1537)
- October 19 – Viglius, name taken by Wigle Aytta van Zwichem, Dutch politician (d. 1577)
- October 26 – Alvise I Mocenigo, Doge (d. 1577)
- October 29 – Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (d. 1582)
- November 25 – Joos de Damhouder, Belgian jurist (d. 1581)
- December 18 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
- date unknown
- Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer (d. 1576)
- Sir Ralph Sadler, English statesman (d. 1587)
- probable
- Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1568)
- Inés Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (d. 1580)
- possible
- Anne Boleyn, Second Queen of Henry VIII of England (born this year or 1501; d. 1536)
Deaths[edit]
- January 17 – Henry IV of Neuhaus (b. 1442)
- March 12 – Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman. (b. 1475)
- March 21 – Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (b. 1471)
- April 2 – Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)
- July 29 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
- August 15 – John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1439)
- August 23 – Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
- August 24 – Cecily of York, English princess (b. 1469)
- December – Ingeborg Tott, influential Swedish noblewoman, wife of Swedish regent Sten Sture the elder