1515

Year '1515' (MDXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1515

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1515

January - June

★ June - Invasion of Persia 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 invested as a Cardinal.

★ December 24 - Thomas Wolsey is named the English Lord Chancellor.

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.

Births

★ 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''

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★ Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish peer (died 1558)

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★ Sebastian Castellio, rector of the College of Geneva (died 1563)

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★ Cristóvão da Costa, Portuguese doctor and natural historian (died 1580)

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★ Injong of Joseon, 12th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (died 1545)

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★ Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar (died 1572)

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★ Thomas Seckford, Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England (died 1587)

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★ Tomé de Sousa, first governor-general of Brazil (died 1573)

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★ Thomas Watson, Catholic Bishop (died 1584)

★ ''probable''

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★ Jean Maillard, French composer

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★ Laurence Nowell, antiquarian (died 1571)

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★ Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (died 1565)

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★ Nicholas Throckmorton, English churchman, last abbot of Westminster (died 1571)

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★ John Willock, Scottish reformer (died 1585)
: ''See also .''

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''

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★ Meñli I Giray, khan of the Crimean Khanate (born 1445)

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★ Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona (Ticino) (born 1435)

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★ Nezahualpilli, Aztec philosopher (born 1464)

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★ Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador (born 1466)

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★ Andreas Stoberl, Austrian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (born 1465)

★ ''probable''

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★ Vincenzo Foppa, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1430)
: ''See also .''