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Year 1507 (MDVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The year 1507 was right in the middle of the world renowned Renaissaince.

Events

January–June

• April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his Cosmographiae Introductio ("Introduction to Universal Cosmography") and accompanying wall map, the first to show the Americas as a separate continent, naming them in honour of Amerigo Vespucci, his friend and idol.

July–December

• July 4 – Martin Luther is ordained a priest of the Catholic Church.
• August 20 – Guru Nanak Dev becomes the first guru and leader of the Sikh religion.

Date unknown

• The Timurid dynasty ends when Uzbeks under Muhammad Shaybani capture the capital, Herat, and the Emir Badi' al-Zaman Mirza flees.
• The Portuguese occupy Mozambique and the islands of Socotra and Lamu.
• Cardinal Cisneros is appointed major inquisitor of Castile.
• King Henry VII of England prosecutes lords for keeping private armies, which might threaten his régime.
• King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar.
• Raphael paints The Deposition, among other works.
• The Aztec New Fire ceremony is held for the last time (according to Bernardino de Sahagún).

Births

• March 7 – Magdalena of Saxony (d. 1534)
• September 16 – Jiajing Emperor of China (d. 1567)
• September 27 – Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (d. 1566)
• October 1 – Johannes Sturm, German educator (d. 1589)
• 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)
  • Sir Ralph Sadler, English statesman (d. 1587)
• probable
  • Inés de Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (d. 1580)
• possible
  • Anne Boleyn, Second Queen of Henry VIII of England (born this year or 1501; d. 1536)

Deaths

• January 17 – Henry IV of Neuhaus (b. 1442)
• 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 15 – John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1439)
• August 23 – Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
• August 24 – Cecily of York, English princess (b. 1469)
• date unknown – Ingeborg Tott, wife of Swedish regent Sten Sture the elder

References

• 1507