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 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.

Events of 1507

Waldseemüller maps America.

April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his world map, naming the new continent America in honour of Amerigo Vespucci.

August 20 – Guru Nanak Dev becomes the first guru and leader of the Sikh religion.

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).

1507: Socotra island.

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.

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.