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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s - 1500s - 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1504 1505 1506 - 1507 - 1508 1509 1510 |
| 1507 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1507 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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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 the first guru and 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.
- The King of England prosecutes the Lords for keeping a private army, which might threaten his régime.
- 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 paints his Burial of Jesus.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1507 MDVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2260 |
| Armenian calendar | 956 ԹՎ ՋԾԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -337 – -336 |
| Berber calendar | 2457 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2051 |
| Burmese calendar | 869 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7015 – 7016 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙寅年十二月十九日 (4143/4203-12-19) — to —
丁卯年十一月廿八日(4144/4204-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 1223 – 1224 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1499 – 1500 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5267 – 5268 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1562 – 1563 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1429 – 1430 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4608 – 4609 |
| Holocene calendar | 11507 |
| Iranian calendar | 885 – 886 |
| Islamic calendar | 912 – 913 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 4 (永正4年) |
| Korean calendar | 3840 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2050 |
- March 7 - Magdalena of Saxony (d. 1534)
- September 16 - Jiajing Emperor of China (d. 1567)
- October 29 - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (d. 1582)
- December 18 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
- date unknown
- Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer (d. 1576)
- Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (d. 1566)
- Sir Ralph Sadler, English statesman (d. 1587)
- Johannes Sturm, German educator (d. 1589)
- probable
- Inés de Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (d. 1580)
- Anne Boleyn 2 wife Henry VIII
- See also Category: 1507 births.
Deaths
- 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 23 - Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
- August 24 - Cecily of York, English princess (b. 1469)
- See also Category: 1507 deaths.
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