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

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.
• October – The Portuguese conquers the port of Ormuz in the Persian Gulf.

Date unknown

• The Timurid Dynasty ends, when Uzbeks under Muhammad Shaybani capture the capital, Herat, and Emir Badi' al-Zaman Mirza flees.
• The Portuguese occupy Mozambique, and the islands of Socotra and Lamu.
• The Portuguese founded the town of Stone Town in Mozambique.
• 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)
  • Luca Longhi, Italian painter (d. 1580)
• 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, duchess consort 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 of Venice (d. 1577)
• October 29 – Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (d. 1582)
• November 25 – Joos de Damhouder, Belgian 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 Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (d. 1580)
• possible
  • Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England (b. this year or 1501; d. 1536)

Deaths

• January 17 – Henry IV of Neuhaus (b. 1442)
• March 12 – Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman. (b. 1475)
• March 21 – Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (b. 1471)
• April 1 – Sigismondo d'Este, Italian nobleman (b. 1433)
• April 2 – Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)
• July 5 – Crinitus, Italian humanist (b. 1475)
• July 8 – Anna Notaras, Byzantine noblewoman (b. 1436)
• 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, spouse of Swedish regent Sten Sture the elder
• Date unknown:
  • Agnes Jónsdóttir, Icelandic abbess (b. year unknown)

References

1. Morris, Terence Alan (1998). Europe and England in the sixteenth century. London: Routledge. pp. 135. ISBN 9780203014639. OCLC 560128917.
2. Cavendish, Richard (March 2007). "Death of Cesare Borgia". History Today. 57 (3). Retrieved March 2, 2019.

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