1515



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

January–June

 * January 1 – Death of Louis XII of France and ascension of Francis, Dauphin of France.
 * January 25 – Francis I of France is crowned King of France in the Cathedral of Reims.
 * May 13 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, are officially married at Greenwich (near London).
 * June 13 – Battle of Turnadag: The army of Ottoman sultan Selim I defeats the beylik of Dulkadir under Bozkurt of Dulkadir.

July–December

 * July 2 – Manchester Grammar School is endowed by Hugh Oldham, the first free grammar school in England.
 * July 22 – At the First Congress of Vienna, a double wedding takes place to cement agreements. Louis, only son of King Vladislaus II of Hungary, marries Mary of Austria, granddaughter of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor; and Mary's brother, Archduke Ferdinand, marries Vladislaus' daughter, Anna.
 * August 25 – Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds Havana, Cuba.
 * September 13–14 – Battle of Marignano: The army of Francis I of France defeats the Swiss mercenaries, thanks to the timely arrival of a Venetian army. Francis restores French control of Milan.
 * November 15 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.
 * December 24 – Thomas Wolsey is named Lord Chancellor of England.

Date unknown

 * Cardinal Wolsey orders construction to begin on what is to become Henry VIII's future summer residence Hampton Court Palace.
 * Bartolomé de las Casas urges Ferdinand II of Aragon to end Amerindian slavery, and recommends experimental free towns.
 * The Portuguese are the first Europeans to land in Timor island, as the first settlers arrive to the north coast of Madeira Island, there establishing Saint George.


 * Dürer's Rhinoceros is cut.
 * The Ottomans conquer the last beyliks of Anatolia, the Beylik of Dulkadir and the Ramadanid Emirate.
 * Henry Cornelius Agrippa returns to Northern Italy.

Births

 * January 1 – Johann Weyer, Dutch physician (d. 1588)
 * February 4 – Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (d. 1565)
 * February 14 – Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (d. 1576)
 * February 18 – Valerius Cordus, German physician, botanist and author (d. 1544)
 * March 10 – Injong of Joseon, 12th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (d. 1545)
 * March 12 – Caspar Othmayr, German Protestant priest, theologian and composer (d. 1553)
 * March 28 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite nun, poet and saint (d. 1582)
 * May 2 – Sibylle of Saxony, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1592)
 * May 12
 * Christoph, Duke of Württemberg (1550–1568) (d. 1568)
 * Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish politician and judge (d. 1558)
 * June 15 – Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke, English countess (d. 1552)
 * July 4 – Eleonora d'Este, Ferranese noblewoman (d. 1575)
 * July 10 – Francisco de Toledo, Viceroy of Peru (d. 1582)
 * July 14 – Philip I, Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast (d. 1560)
 * July 21 – Philip Neri, Italian Roman Catholic saint (d. 1595)
 * September 8 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish biblical scholar and early Jesuit (d. 1585)
 * September 22 – Anne of Cleves, Fourth Queen of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
 * October 4 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
 * October 7 – Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, son of King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1540)
 * October 8 – Margaret Douglas, daughter of Archibald Douglas (d. 1578)
 * October 15 – Leone Strozzi, French Navy admiral (d. 1554)
 * October 29
 * Vincenzo Borghini, Italian monk (d. 1580)
 * Mary of Bourbon, daughter of Charles, Duke of Vendôme (d. 1538)
 * November 22 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
 * December 15 – Maria of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania (d. 1583)
 * date unknown
 * Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish peer (d. 1558)
 * Sebastian Castellio, rector of the College of Geneva (d. 1563)
 * Sehzade Mustafa, First born son of Suleiman the Magnificent by Mahidevran Hatun (d. 1553)
 * Cristóbal Acosta, Portuguese doctor and natural historian (d. 1580)
 * Injong of Joseon, 12th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (d. 1545)
 * Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist scholar (d. 1572)
 * Thomas Seckford, Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England (d. 1587)
 * Thomas Watson, English Catholic bishop (d. 1584)
 * probable
 * Leonard Digges, English mathematician and surveyor (d. c. 1559)
 * Jean Maillard, French composer
 * Laurence Nowell, English antiquarian (d. 1571)
 * Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (d. 1565)
 * Nicholas Throckmorton, English churchman, last abbot of Westminster (d. 1571)
 * John Willock, Scottish reformer (d. 1585)

Deaths

 * January 1 – King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
 * February 6 – Aldus Manutius, Venetian printer (b. c. 1449)
 * March 16 – Queen Janggyeong, Korean royal consort (b. 1491)
 * April 15 – Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and first Great Hetman of the Crown (b. 1460)
 * June 13 – Alaüddevle Bozkurt, Bey of Anatolian Dulkadir
 * September 4 – Barbara of Brandenburg, Bohemian queen (b. 1464)
 * September 9 – Joseph Volotsky, caesaropapist ideologist of the Russian Orthodox Church
 * October – Bartolomeo d'Alviano, Venetian general (b. 1455)
 * November 5 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
 * December 2 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
 * December 16 – Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese naval general (b. 1453)
 * December 18 – Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross, Scottish prince (b. 1514)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Giocondo, Italian friar, architect and classical scholar (b. c. 1433 in Verona)
 * Eoghan Mac Cathmhaoil, Irish Bishop of Clogher since 1505
 * Meñli I Giray, khan of the Crimean Khanate (b. 1445)
 * Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect (b. 1435 in Carona (Ticino))
 * Nezahualpilli, Aztec philosopher (b. 1464)
 * Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador (b. 1466)
 * probable
 * Vincenzo Foppa, Italian Renaissance painter (b. 1430)
 * Quilago, queen regnant of the Cochasquí in Ecuador (b. 1490)