1507
Year 1507 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.Events
January–June
- April 25 – Martin Waldseemüller publishes his Cosmographiae Introductio 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.
- October – The Portuguese conquers the island of Ormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Date unknown
- The Timurid Dynasty ends, when Uzbeks under Muhammad Shaybani capture the capital, Herat, and Emir Badi' al-Zaman Mirza flees.
- The Portuguese occupy Mozambique, and the islands of Socotra and Lamu.
- The Portuguese founded the town of Stone Town in Mozambique.
- 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.
Births
- January 1 - Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
- January 14
- * Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal
- * Luca Longhi, Italian painter
- January 18 - Ferdinando Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno
- January 25 - Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer
- February 11 - Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, Russian Orthodox monk
- February 21 - James, Duke of Rothesay, Scottish prince
- March 7 - Magdalena of Saxony
- March 25 - Thomas White, English politician
- March 29 - Henry II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels and Count of Glatz
- April 13 - Konrad Hubert, German theologian and hymnwriter
- June 5 - Ferdinand of Portugal, Duke of Guarda and Trancoso, Portuguese nobleman
- June 6 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet and Knight of Malta
- June 25 - Marie of Baden-Sponheim, duchess consort of Bavaria
- July 25 - Chamaraja Wodeyar IV, King of Mysore
- August 2 - William Waldegrave, English Member of Parliament
- August 15 - George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince
- September 16 - Jiajing Emperor of China
- September 27 - Guillaume Rondelet, French physician
- October 1
- * Johannes Sturm, German educator
- * Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect
- October 4 - Francis Bigod, British noble
- October 19 - Viglius, Dutch politician
- October 26 - Alvise I Mocenigo, Doge of Venice
- October 29 - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general
- November 25 - Joos de Damhouder, Belgian jurist
- December 18 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord
- date unknown
- * Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer
- * Sir Ralph Sadler, English statesman
- probable
- * Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer
- * Inés Suárez, Spanish conquistadora
- possible
- * Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England
Deaths
- January 17 - Henry IV of Neuhaus
- March 12 - Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman.
- March 21 - Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski, Polish nobleman
- April 1 - Sigismondo d'Este, Italian nobleman
- April 2 - Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims
- July 5 - Crinitus, Italian humanist
- July 8 - Anna Notaras, Byzantine noblewoman
- July 29 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer
- August 15 - John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
- August 23 - Jean Molinet, French writer
- August 24 - Cecily of York, English princess
- December - Ingeborg Tott, influential Swedish noblewoman, spouse of Swedish regent Sten Sture the elder
- Date unknown:
- * Agnes Jónsdóttir, Icelandic abbess
