1507

This article is about the year 1507.

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 other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1507 MDVII
Ab urbe condita	2260
Armenian calendar	956 ԹՎ ՋԾԶ
Assyrian calendar	6257
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 (Fire Tiger) 4203 or 4143     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4204 or 4144
Coptic calendar	1223–1224
Discordian calendar	2673
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
Igbo calendar	507–508
Iranian calendar	885–886
Islamic calendar	912–913
Japanese calendar	Eishō 4 (永正４年)
Julian calendar	1507 MDVII
Korean calendar	3840
Minguo calendar	405 before ROC 民前405年
Thai solar calendar	2049–2050

Waldseemüller maps America.

Mona Lisa

Socotra island

Year 1507 (MDVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The year 1507 was right in the middle of the world-renowned Renaissaince.

Events

January–June

• April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his Cosmographiae Introductio ("Introduction to Universal Cosmography") and accompanying wall map, the first to show the Americas as a separate continent, naming them in honour of Amerigo Vespucci, his friend and idol.

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.

Date unknown

• The Timurid dynasty ends when Uzbeks under Muhammad Shaybani capture the capital, Herat, and the Emir Badi' al-Zaman Mirza flees.
• The Portuguese occupy Mozambique and the islands of Socotra and Lamu.
• Cardinal Cisneros is appointed major inquisitor of Castile.
• King Henry VII of England prosecutes lords for keeping private armies, which might threaten his régime.
• King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar.
• Raphael paints The Deposition, among other works.
• The Aztec New Fire ceremony is held for the last time (according to Bernardino de Sahagún).

Births

• January 1 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (d. 1567)
• January 14 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (d. 1578)
• January 18 – Ferdinando Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno (d. 1572)
• January 25 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (d. 1568)
• February 11 – Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, Russian Orthodox monk (d. 1569)
• February 21 – James, Duke of Rothesay, Scottish prince (d. 1508)
• March 7 – Magdalena of Saxony (d. 1534)
• March 25 – Thomas White, English politician (d. 1566)
• March 29 – Henry II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels and Count of Glatz (d. 1548)
• April 13 – Konrad Hubert, German theologian and hymnwriter (d. 1577)
• June 5 – Ferdinand of Portugal, Duke of Guarda and Trancoso, Portuguese nobleman (d. 1534)
• June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and Knight of Malta (d. 1566)
• June 25 – Marie of Baden-Sponheim, Margravine of Baden by birth and by marriage Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1580)
• July 25 – Chamaraja Wodeyar IV, King of Mysore (d. 1576)
• August 2 – William Waldegrave, English Member of Parliament (d. 1554)
• August 15 – George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince (d. 1553)
• September 16 – Jiajing Emperor of China (d. 1567)
• September 27 – Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (d. 1566)
• October 1
  • Johannes Sturm, German educator (d. 1589)
  • Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
• October 4 – Francis Bigod, British noble (d. 1537)
• October 19 – Viglius, Dutch politician (d. 1577)
• October 26 – Alvise I Mocenigo, Doge (d. 1577)
• October 29 – Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (d. 1582)
• November 25 – Joos de Damhouder, Dutch jurist (d. 1581)
• December 18 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
• date unknown
  • Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer (d. 1576)
  • Sir Ralph Sadler, English statesman (d. 1587)
• probable
  • Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1568)
  • Inés de Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (d. 1580)
• possible
  • Anne Boleyn, Second Queen of Henry VIII of England (born this year or 1501; d. 1536)

Deaths

• January 17 – Henry IV of Neuhaus (b. 1442)
• March 12 – Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman.
• 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 15 – John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1439)
• August 23 – Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
• August 24 – Cecily of York, English princess (b. 1469)
• December – Ingeborg Tott, influential Swedish noblewoman, wife of Swedish regent Sten Sture the elder