1505
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| Centuries: | 15th century · 16th century · 17th century |
| Decades: | 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s |
| Years: | 1502 1503 1504 1505 1506 1507 1508 |
| 1505 by topic | |
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| Architecture - Art - Music - Science | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1505 MDV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2258 |
| Armenian calendar | 954 ԹՎ ՋԾԴ |
| Chinese calendar | 4141/4201-11-27 (甲子年十一月廿七日) — to —
4142/4202-12-7(乙丑年十二月初七日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1497 – 1498 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5265 – 5266 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1560 – 1561 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1427 – 1428 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4606 – 4607 |
| Iranian calendar | 883 – 884 |
| Islamic calendar | 911 – 912 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 2 (永正2年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2165 (皇紀2165年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11505 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2048 |
1505 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
[edit] Events
- Portuguese under Dom Lourenço d'Almeida reach Colombo, Sri Lanka and send envoys to King of Kotte.
- June 27 - Henry VIII of England repudiates his engagement to Catherine of Aragon, at his father's command
- King Alexander of Poland signed "Nihil novi" act - Poland became Nobles' Democracy
- Poland prohibits peasants from leaving their lands, establishing serfdom
- Christ's College, Cambridge founded.
- Vasili III succeeds Ivan III as Grand Prince of Muscovy.
- Idiosa III of Chardonnay murdered.
- Arabs reach Comoros.
- Judah Abravanel becomes personal physician to the viceroy of Naples.
- Bermuda was Discovered by Portugese Explorer Juan de Bermudez
[edit] Births
- February 5 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (died 1572)
- September 18 - Maria of Austria, queen of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (died 1558)
- Joachim II of Brandenburg, Imperial Elector (died 1571)
- William Cavendish, English courtier (died 1557)
- Philip Hoby, English politician (died 1558)
- Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (died 1564)
- Shahgali, Khan of Qasim
- Mehmed Sokollu, Grand Vizier of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II (died 1579)
- Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, Turkish Janissary (died 1579)
- Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (died 1550)
- Christopher Tye, English composer and organist (died 1572)
- Jean Le Veneur, French cardinal (died 1543)
[edit] Deaths
- February 4 - Jane de Valois, daughter of Louis XI of France (born 1464)
- June 8 - Hongzhi Emperor of China (born 1470)
- October 27 - Ivan III of Russia (born 1440)
- Heinrich Kramer, churchman and inquisitor (born 1430)
- July - Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer (plague) (born 1457)
