1507
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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 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1507 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 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.
- Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa.
- Cardinal Cisneros is appointed major inquisitor of Castile.
- The Portuguese occupy Mozambique and the islands of Socotra and Lamu.
- Alfonso de Albuquerque becomes Viceroy of the Portuguese Empire in the East.
- The Aztec New Fire ceremony is held for the last time (according to Bernardino de Sahagún.
[edit] Arts and Literature
- Rafael: "Burial of Jesus"
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1507 MDVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2260 |
| Armenian calendar | 956 ԹՎ ՋԾԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -337 – -336 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2051 |
| Chinese calendar | 4143/4203-12-19 (丙寅年十二月十九日) — to —
4144/4204-11-28(丁卯年十一月廿八日) |
| 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) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2167 (皇紀2167年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11507 |
| Julian calendar | 1552 |
| Korean calendar | 3840 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2050 |
- March 7 - Magdalena of Saxony (died 1534)
- September 16 - Jiajing Emperor of China (died 1567)
- October 29 - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (died 1582)
- December 18 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (died 1551)
- date unknown
- Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer (died 1576)
- Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (died 1566)
- Sir Ralph Sadler, English statesman (died 1587)
- Johannes Sturm, German educator (died 1589)
- probable
- Summer - Anne Boleyn, queen of England (died 1536) (This date is an hypothesis and other possible dates for Boleyn's birth exist, including 1501 and 1505.)
- Inés de Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (died 1580)
- See also Category: 1507 births.
[edit] Deaths
- March 12 - Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (born 1475)
- March 21 - Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (born 1471)
- April 2 - Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (born 1416)
- July 29 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (born 1459)
- August 23 - Jean Molinet, French writer (born 1435)
- See also Category: 1507 deaths.
