1515

This article is about the year 1515.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1512 1513 1514 – 1515 – 1516 1517 1518

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1515 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1515 MDXV
Ab urbe condita	2268
Armenian calendar	964 ԹՎ ՋԿԴ
Assyrian calendar	6265
Bahá'í calendar	-329–-328
Bengali calendar	922
Berber calendar	2465
English Regnal year	6 Hen. 8 – 7 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2059
Burmese calendar	877
Byzantine calendar	7023–7024
Chinese calendar	甲戌年十二月十七日 (4151/4211-12-17) — to — 乙亥年十一月廿七日 (4152/4212-11-27)
Coptic calendar	1231–1232
Ethiopian calendar	1507–1508
Hebrew calendar	5275–5276
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1571–1572
- Shaka Samvat	1437–1438
- Kali Yuga	4616–4617
Holocene calendar	11515
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	515–516
Iranian calendar	893–894
Islamic calendar	920–921
Japanese calendar	Eishō 12 (永正12年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	1515    MDXV
Korean calendar	3848
Minguo calendar	397 before ROC 民前397年
Thai solar calendar	2058

September 13: Battle of Marignano.

Year 1515 (MDXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 25 – Coronation of Francis I of France (r. until 1547).

July–December

• September 13–September 14 – Battle of Marignano: The army of Francis I of France defeats the Swiss, thanks to the timely arrival of a Venetian army. Francis restores French control of Milan.
• November 15 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.
• December 24 – Thomas Wolsey is named the English Lord Chancellor.

Date unknown

• Ottoman sultan Selim I killed Dulkadirid ruler Alaüddevle, challenging Mameluk sultan of Egypt al-Ghawri.
• The Manchester Grammar School is founded.
• Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds Havana, Cuba.
• The Yadigarid Uzbeks found the Khanate of Khiva.
• Francis I of France starts to rule.
• Bartolomé de las Casas urges Charles V to end Amerindian slavery and recommends the importation of blacks from Africa.^{[citation needed]}
• First Congress of Vienna.
• Dürer's Rhinoceros cut.
• Henry Cornelius Agrippa returns to Northern Italy.

Births

• January 4 – Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (d. 1565)
• February 14 – Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (d. 1576)
• February 18 – Valerius Cordus, German physician (d. 1544)
• February 24 – Johann Weyer, German physician (d. 1588)
• March 28 – Saint Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (d. 1582)
• July 10 – Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa (d. 1584)
• July 21 – Philip Neri, Italian churchman (d. 1595)
• September 8 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)
• September 22 – Anne of Cleves, Fourth Queen of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
• October 4 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
• October 7 – Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, 6th son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his wife Maria of Aragon (d. 1540)
• October 8 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)
• November 22 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
• date unknown
  • Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish peer (d. 1558)
  • Sebastian Castellio, rector of the College of Geneva (d. 1563)
  • Cristóbal Acosta, Portuguese doctor and natural historian (d. 1580)
  • Injong of Joseon, 12th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (d. 1545)
  • Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar (d. 1572)
  • Thomas Seckford, Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England (d. 1587)
  • Thomas Watson, Catholic bishop (d. 1584)
• probable
  • Leonard Digges, English mathematician and surveyor (d. c. 1559)
  • Jean Maillard, French composer
  • Laurence Nowell, antiquarian (d. 1571)
  • Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (d. 1565)
  • Nicholas Throckmorton, English churchman, last abbot of Westminster (d. 1571)
  • John Willock, Scottish reformer (d. 1585)

Deaths

• January 1 – King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
• January 15 – Diebold Schilling the Younger, Swiss chronicler
• February 6 – Aldus Manutius, Venetian printer (b. c. 1449)
• April 15 – Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and the first Great Hetman of the Crown (b. 1460)
• September 9 – Joseph Volotsky, prominent caesaropapist ideologist of the Russian Orthodox Church, who led the party defending monastic landownership
• October – Bartolomeo d'Alviano, Venetian general (b. 1455)
• November 5 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
• December 2 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
• December 16 – Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese naval general (b. 1453)
• date unknown
  • Eoghan Mac Cathmhaoil, Irish, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher
  • Khan Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate (b. 1445)
  • Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect (b. in Carona (Ticino) 1435)
  • Nezahualpilli, Aztec philosopher (b. 1464)
  • Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador (b. 1466)
• probable – Vincenzo Foppa, Italian Renaissance painter (b. 1430)