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1507

Calendar year

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01Events

January-March

April-June

July, September

  • July 3, Ferdinand II and Louis XII complete their six-day summit at Savona.
  • July 20, King Ferdinand II of Aragon returns to Valencia to resume his rule of his Spanish kingdom.
  • August 10, Afonso de Albuquerque departs with six ships from the Yemeni island of Socotra to begin pillaging towns along the way to conquering the Persian Gulf port of Hormuz.
  • August 27, A fleet of 11 ships from the Portuguese Navy's 8th Armada arrives in India and rescues the Portuguese defenders of the fort of Saint Angelo from the attack by the Kingdom of Cannanore.
  • September 15, King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland, to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar "to furnis and bring hame ane prent, with all stuff belangand tharto, and expert men to use the samyne, for imprenting within our Realme of the bukis of our Lawis, actis of parliament, croniclis, mess bukis, and portuus efter the use of our Realme, with addicions and legendis of Scottis sanctis, now gaderit to be ekit tharto, and al utheris bukis that salbe sene necessar, and to sel the sammyn for competent pricis."
  • September 26, A fleet commanded by Portugal's Afonso de Albuquerque arrives at the port of Hormuz on the Persian Gulf and sets about to conquer it.

October, December

Date unknown

Raphael completes The Deposition
Raphael completes The Deposition
Waldseemüller maps America.
Waldseemüller maps America.

02Births

Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg
Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg
Portrait of a Gentleman (Cesare Borgia)
Portrait of a Gentleman (Cesare Borgia)

03Deaths

Saint Francis of Paola
Saint Francis of Paola
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