1515
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 1515 (MDXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1515
January - June
- June - Persia is invaded by Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire.
July - December
- September 5 - Selim captures the Persian capital of Tabriz without encountering any resistance, but is unable to hold it.
- September 13 - September 14 - Battle of Marignano: The army of Francis I of France defeats the Swiss, thanks to the timely arrival of a Venetian army. Francis restores French control of Milan.
- November 15 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.
- December 24 - Thomas Wolsey is named the English Lord Chancellor.
Undated
- The Ottoman Empire conquers Kurdistan.
- The Manchester Grammar School is founded.
- Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds Havana, Cuba.
- The Yadigarid Uzbeks found the Khanate of Khiva.
- Francis I of France starts to rule.
- Bartolome de Las Casas urges Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor to end Amerindian slavery and recommends the importation of blacks from Africa.
Births
- January 4 - Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (d. 1565)
- February 14 - Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (d.
1576)
- February 18 - Valerius Cordus, German physician (d. 1544)
- February 24 - Johann Weyer, German physician (d. 1588)
- March 28 - Saint Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (d. 1582)
- July 10 - Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa (d. 1584)
- July 21 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (d. 1595)
- September 8 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)
- September 22 - Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
- October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
- October 7 - Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, 6th son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his wife Maria of Aragon (d. 1540)
- October 8 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)
- November 22 - Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
- date unknown
- Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish peer (d. 1558)
- Sebastian Castellio, rector of the College of Geneva (d. 1563)
- Cristóvão da Costa, Portuguese doctor and natural historian (d. 1580)
- Injong of Joseon, 12th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (d. 1545)
- Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar (d. 1572)
- Thomas Seckford, Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England (d. 1587)
- Tomé de Sousa, first governor-general of Brazil (d. 1573)
- Thomas Watson, Catholic bishop (d. 1584)
- probable
- Jean Maillard, French composer
- Laurence Nowell, antiquarian (d. 1571)
- Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (d. 1565)
- Nicholas Throckmorton, English churchman, last abbot of Westminster (d. 1571)
- John Willock, Scottish reformer (d. 1585)
- See also :Category: 1515 births.
Deaths
- January 1 - King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
- January 15 - Diebold Schilling the Younger, Swiss chronicler
- February 6 - Aldus Manutius, Venetian printer (b. c. 1449)
- April 15 - Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and the first Great Hetman of the Crown (b. 1460)
- September 9 - Joseph Volotsky, prominent caesaropapist ideologist of the Russian Orthodox Church, who led the party defending monastic landownership
- October - Bartolomeo d'Alviano, Venetian general (b. 1455)
- November 5 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
- December 2 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
- December 16 - Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese naval general (b. 1453)
- date unknown
- Khan Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate (b. 1445)
- Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect (b. in Carona (Ticino)1435)
- Nezahualpilli, Aztec philosopher (b. 1464)
- Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador (b. 1466)
- Andreas Stoberl, Austrian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (b. 1465)
- probable
- Vincenzo Foppa, Italian Renaissance painter (b. 1430)
- See also :Category: 1515 deaths.
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