1507
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This article is about the year 1507.
| 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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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1507 MDVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2260 |
| Armenian calendar | 956 ԹՎ ՋԾԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6257 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -337–-336 |
| 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 | 1563–1564 |
| - 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 |
| Minguo calendar | 405 before ROC 民前405年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his world map, naming the new continent America in honour of Amerigo Vespucci his friend and idol.
[edit] July–December
- 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.
[edit] Date unknown
- 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.
- Timurid dynasty ends.
- The Portuguese occupy Mozambique and the islands of Socotra and Lamu.
- The Aztec New Fire ceremony is held for the last time (according to Bernardino de Sahagún).
- Raphael paints his Burial of Jesus.
[edit] Births
- 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)
- possible
- Anne Boleyn, Second Queen of Henry VIII of England (born this year or 1501; d. 1536)
[edit] 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)
- date unknown – Ingeborg Tott, wife of Swedish regent Sten Sture the elder
