1515
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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s
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| Years: | 1512 1513 1514 - 1515 - 1516 1517 1518 |
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Year 1515 (MDXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1515
[edit] January - June
- June - Invasion of Persia by Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire.
[edit] 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 invested as a Cardinal.
- December 24 - Thomas Wolsey is named the English Lord Chancellor.
[edit] Undated
- Ottoman Empire conquers Kurdistan.
- The Manchester Grammar School is founded.
- Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded Havana, Cuba.
- 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.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1515 MDXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2268 |
| Armenian calendar | 964 ԹՎ ՋԿԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -329 – -328 |
| Berber calendar | 2465 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2059 |
| Burmese calendar | 877 |
| Chinese calendar | 4151/4211-12-17 (甲戌年十二月十七日) — to — 4152/4212-11-27(乙亥年十一月廿七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1231 – 1232 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1507 – 1508 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5275 – 5276 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1570 – 1571 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1437 – 1438 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4616 – 4617 |
| Holocene calendar | 11515 |
| Iranian calendar | 893 – 894 |
| Islamic calendar | 920 – 921 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 12 (永正12年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2175 (皇紀2175年) |
| Julian calendar | 1560 |
| Korean calendar | 3848 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2058 |
- January 4 - Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (died 1565)
- February 14 - Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (died 1576)
- February 18 - Valerius Cordus, German physician (died 1544)
- February 24 - Johann Weyer, German physician (died 1588)
- March 28 - Saint Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (died 1582)
- July 10 - Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, (died 1584)
- July 21 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (died 1595)
- September 8 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (died 1585)
- September 22 - Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII of England (died 1557)
- October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (died 1586)
- October 7 - Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, sixth son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his wife Maria of Aragon (died 1540)
- October 8 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (died 1578)
- November 22 - Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (died 1560)
- date unknown
- Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish peer (died 1558)
- Sebastian Castellio, rector of the College of Geneva (died 1563)
- Cristóvão da Costa, Portuguese doctor and natural historian (died 1580)
- Injong of Joseon, 12th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (died 1545)
- Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar (died 1572)
- Thomas Seckford, Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England (died 1587)
- Tomé de Sousa, first governor-general of Brazil (died 1573)
- Thomas Watson, Catholic Bishop (died 1584)
- probable
- Jean Maillard, French composer
- Laurence Nowell, antiquarian (died 1571)
- Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (died 1565)
- Nicholas Throckmorton, English churchman, last abbot of Westminster (died 1571)
- John Willock, Scottish reformer (died 1585)
- See also Category: 1515 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 1 - King Louis XII of France (born 1462)
- January 15 - Diebold Schilling the Younger, Swiss chronicler
- February 6 - Aldus Manutius, Venetian printer (born c1449)
- April 15 - Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and the first Great Hetman of the Crown (born 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 (born 1455)
- November 5 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (born 1474)
- December 2 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (born 1453)
- December 16 - Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese naval general (born 1453)
- date unknown
- Meñli I Giray, khan of the Crimean Khanate (born 1445)
- Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona (Ticino) (born 1435)
- Nezahualpilli, Aztec philosopher (born 1464)
- Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador (born 1466)
- Andreas Stoberl, Austrian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (born 1465)
- probable
- Vincenzo Foppa, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1430)
- See also Category: 1515 deaths.af:1515
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