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 v • d • e

Year 1507 (MDVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1507 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Arts and Literature 3 Births 4 Deaths

[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

1507 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1507 MDVII
Ab urbe condita	2260
Armenian calendar	956 ԹՎ ՋԾԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-337 – -336
Bengali calendar	914
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
v • d • e

• 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
  • Ingeborg Tott

See also Category: 1507 deaths.