1505
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This article is about the year 1505.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1502 1503 1504 – 1505 – 1506 1507 1508 |
| 1505 by topic | |
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| Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1505 MDV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2258 |
| Armenian calendar | 954 ԹՎ ՋԾԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6255 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -339–-338 |
| Bengali calendar | 912 |
| Berber calendar | 2455 |
| English Regnal year | 20 Hen. 7 – 21 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2049 |
| Burmese calendar | 867 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7013–7014 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年十一月廿七日 (4141/4201-11-27) — to —
乙丑年十二月初七日(4142/4202-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 1221–1222 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1497–1498 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5265–5266 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1561–1562 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1427–1428 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4606–4607 |
| Holocene calendar | 11505 |
| Iranian calendar | 883–884 |
| Islamic calendar | 910–911 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 2 (永正2年) |
| Korean calendar | 3838 |
| Minguo calendar | 407 before ROC 民前407年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2048 |
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Year 1505 (MDV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- June 19 Zhengde Emperor ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.
- June 27 – Henry VIII of England repudiates his engagement to Catherine of Aragon, at his father's command.
[edit] July–December
- July 2 – Martin Luther, then 22, vows to become a monk in a moment of terror, due to a near lightning strike during a thunderstorm, near the village of Stotternheim.
- July 17 – Luther enters the monastic life at an Augustinian cloister in Erfurt.
- July 24 – Travelling to India, a group of Portuguese explorers sack the city-state of Kilwa in East Africa, killing the king for failing to pay tribute.
- December 18 – John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lièges, Belgium, is executed.
[edit] Date unknown
- A Portuguese fleet attacks Kilwa and then Mombasa. The Portuguese then attempt to monopolize the trade in the east African ports, but are unable to maintain control (by the late 16th century, Swahili groups regain control of several ports from the Portuguese).
- Portuguese merchants establish factories on the east coast of Africa.
- Portuguese under Dom Lourenço d'Almeida reach Colombo, Sri Lanka and send envoys to King of Kotte.
- Portuguese reach the Comoros.
- Bermuda is discovered by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez.
- King Alexander of Poland signs the Nihil novi Act, making Poland a Nobles' Democracy.
- Poland prohibits peasants from leaving their lands, establishing serfdom.
- Christ's College, Cambridge, is founded.
- Vasili III succeeds Ivan III as Grand Prince of Muscovy.
- Idiosa III of Chardonnay is murdered.
- Judah Abravanel becomes personal physician to the viceroy of Naples.
- Battle of Achnashellach said to have taken place in Scotland.
- 1505 or 1506 - Portuguese explorer Gonçalo Álvares is the first to sight what will later be known as Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
[edit] Births
- January 13 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, Imperial Elector (d. 1571)
- February 5 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
- September 18 – Maria of Austria, daughter of Philip I of Castile and Joanna of Castile (d. 1558)
- date unknown
- William Cavendish, English courtier (d. 1557)
- Philip Hoby, English politician (d. 1558)
- Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (d. 1564)
- Shahgali, Khan of Qasim
- Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (d. 1550)
- probable – Christopher Tye, English composer and organist (d. 1572)
[edit] Deaths
- February 4 – Jeanne de Valois, daughter of Louis XI of France (b. 1464)
- February 20 – Arvid Trolle, Swedish politician (b. c. 1440)
- April 23 – Muhammad Jaunpuri, religious leader (b. 1443)
- June 8 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
- June 15 – Ercole d'Este I, Duke of Ferrara (b. 1431)
- July – Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer (plague) (b. 1457)
- October 27 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
- date unknown
- Adam of Fulda, music writer (b. c. 1445)
- Heinrich Kramer, churchman and inquisitor (b. 1430)
