1507

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

Events of 1507

April - 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.
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.

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)