1507
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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 – Poetry – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1507 (MDVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1507
[edit] January–June
- April – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his world map, naming the new continent America in honour of Amerigo Vespucci.
[edit] July–December
- August 20 – Guru Nanak Dev becomes the first guru and leader of the Sikh religion.
[edit] 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.
- 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).
[edit] Arts and Literature
- Rafael paints his Burial of Jesus.
[edit] 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 1507 births
- Inés de Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (d. 1580)
- Anne Boleyn, future Queen of England (There is some debate over this. Many historians place her birth much earlier, in 1501. An aristocrat who served Anne's stepdaughter as lady-in-waiting wrote that Anne was almost twenty-nine at the time of her death in May 1536, leading many others to hypothesise a date of birth sometime in the summer of 1507.)
- See also Category: 1507 births.
[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
- See also Category: 1507 deaths.
