1505

Year 1505 (MDV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1505 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1505
MDV
Ab urbe condita2258
Armenian calendar954
ԹՎ ՋԾԴ
Assyrian calendar6255
Balinese saka calendar1426–1427
Bengali calendar912
Berber calendar2455
English Regnal year20 Hen. 7  21 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar2049
Burmese calendar867
Byzantine calendar7013–7014
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4201 or 4141
     to 
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
4202 or 4142
Coptic calendar1221–1222
Discordian calendar2671
Ethiopian calendar1497–1498
Hebrew calendar5265–5266
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1561–1562
 - Shaka Samvat1426–1427
 - Kali Yuga4605–4606
Holocene calendar11505
Igbo calendar505–506
Iranian calendar883–884
Islamic calendar910–911
Japanese calendarEishō 2
(永正2年)
Javanese calendar1422–1423
Julian calendar1505
MDV
Korean calendar3838
Minguo calendar407 before ROC
民前407年
Nanakshahi calendar37
Thai solar calendar2047–2048
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1631 or 1250 or 478
     to 
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
1632 or 1251 or 479
Arabs reach the Comoros.

Events

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

  • July 2 Martin Luther, aged 22, vows to become a monk in a moment of terror, as a result of a close lightning strike during a thunderstorm, near the village of Stotternheim.[3]
  • July The Kalmar Bloodbath takes place in Kalmar, Sweden.
  • July 17 Luther enters the monastic life, at an Augustinian cloister in Erfurt.
  • July 24 Travelling to India, a group of Portuguese explorers sack the city-state of Kilwa in East Africa, killing the king for failing to pay tribute.
  • November 6 Vasili III succeeds Ivan III, as Grand Prince of Muscovy.
  • December 30 Érard de La Marck is elected prince-bishop of Liège.[4]

Date unknown

  • A Portuguese fleet attacks Kilwa, and then Mombasa. The Portuguese then attempt to monopolize the trade in the east African ports, but are unable to maintain control (by the late 16th century, Swahili groups regain control of several ports from the Portuguese).
  • Portuguese merchants establish factories on the east coast of Africa.
  • Portuguese explorers under Dom Lourenço d'Almeida reach Colombo on Sri Lanka and send envoys to the King of Kotte; they also reach the Comoros.
  • Bermuda is discovered by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez.
  • King Alexander of Poland signs the Nihil novi Act, making Poland a Nobles' Democracy.
  • Poland prohibits peasants from leaving their lands, establishing serfdom.
  • Christ's College, Cambridge, England, is re-founded, receiving its charter from Lady Margaret Beaufort.
  • Judah Abravanel becomes personal physician to the viceroy of Naples.
  • Battle of Achnashellach in Scotland: The Clan Cameron emerges victorious over several other clans.
  • Watch 1505, the earliest known pocket watch, is made at Nuremberg, Germany by Peter Henlein.[5]
  • 1505 (or 1506) Portuguese explorer Gonçalo Álvares is the first to sight what will later be known as Gough Island in the South Atlantic.

Births

  • January 12 Louis, Count of Stolberg, German nobleman (d. 1574)
  • January 13 Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, Imperial Elector (d. 1571)
  • February 4 Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet and prose writer, politician and musician of the Renaissance (d. 1569)[6]
  • February 5 Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
  • March 16 Francisco Balbi di Correggio (d. 1589)[7]
  • March 25 Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle, English heiress (d. 1519)
  • May 20 Levinus Lemnius, Dutch writer (d. 1568)
  • September 15 Mary of Hungary, Dutch ruler (d. 1558)
  • September 23 Anne de Laval, Viscountess of Thouars, French noblewoman and nominal pretender to the Kingdom of Naples (d. 1554)
  • November 3 Achilles Gasser, German physician and astrologer (d. 1577)
  • November 23 Ercole Gonzaga, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1563)
  • December 18 Philipp von Hutten, German explorer (d. 1546)
  • December 21 Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (d. 1550)[8]
  • December 25 Christine of Saxony, German noble (d. 1549)
  • date unknown
    • William Cavendish, English courtier (d. 1557)
    • Philip Hoby, English politician (d. 1558)
    • Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (d. 1564)
    • Margaret Roper, English writer (d. 1544)
    • Shahghali, Khan of Qasim
  • probable
    • Christopher Tye, English composer and organist (d. 1572)[9]
    • Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, English noblewoman (executed 1542)

Deaths

Saint Jeanne de Valois
Emperor Hongzhi
Blessed Osanna of Mantua

References

  1. Harsh K. Gupta; Fareeduddin (2008). Recent Advances in Earth System Science. Geological Society of India. pp. 244, 381. ISBN 978-81-85867-83-0.
  2. Susan Doran (2008). The Tudor Chronicles. Quercus. p. 1496. ISBN 978-1-84724-422-2.
  3. Edward J. Hahnenberg (April 12, 2005). Table Talk with Martin Luther: A Modern Catholic's Conversations with the Founder of Protestantism. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4634-9168-0.
  4. Peter G. Bietenholz; Thomas Brian Deutscher (January 1, 2003). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press. p. 383. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1.
  5. Peter Henlein: Watch 1505 - HR Fernsehen (German), hr-fernsehen, German. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
  6. Gorton Carruth (1993). The Encyclopedia of World Facts and Dates. HarperCollins. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-06-270012-4.
  7. Albert Ganado; Maurice Agius-Vadalà; George Mifsud Chircop (1994). A Study in Depth of 143 Maps Representing the Great Siege of Malta of 1565. Bank of Valletta. p. 321. ISBN 978-99909-0-050-7.
  8. The Encyclopedia Americana. Americana Corporation. 1976. p. 334. ISBN 978-0-7172-0107-5.
  9. Stanford E. Lehmberg (July 14, 2014). The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society. Princeton University Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-4008-5980-1.
  10. Emily Sarah Holt (1861). Memoirs of Royal Ladies. Hurst and Blackett. p. 270.
  11. George Haydn Huntley (1971). Andrea Sansovino, Sculptor and Architect of the Italian Renaissance. Greenwood Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-8371-5609-5.
  12. Martin Picker (1988). Johannes Ockeghem and Jacob Obrecht: A Guide to Research. Garland Pub. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-8240-8381-6.
  13. Burkhalter, A. Louis; Romain Goldron (1968). Music of the Renaissance. H. S. Stuttman Company. p. 87.
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