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

Events of 1507

January - June

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

July - December

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

Undated

• 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.

Arts and Literature

• Rafael paints his Burial of Jesus.

Births

• 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
• Inés de Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (d. 1580)
• Anne Boleyn 2 wife Henry VIII

See also :Category: 1507 births.

Deaths

• 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)

See also :Category: 1507 deaths.