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

Events of 1515

Astronomy

The last time the earths so called second moon Cruithne, discovered in 1986, orbited the earth during the year 1515 ( the so called second moon actually rotates the sun and not the earth and is more like an asteroid)

January–June

• June – Persia is invaded by Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire.

July–December

• September 5 – Selim captures the Persian capital of Tabriz without encountering any resistance, but is unable to hold it.

• September 13 – September 14 – Battle of Marignano: The army of Francis I of France defeats the Swiss, thanks to the timely arrival of a Venetian army. Francis restores French control of Milan.
• November 15 – Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.
• December 24 – Thomas Wolsey is named the English Lord Chancellor.

Undated

• The Manchester Grammar School is founded.
• Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds Havana, Cuba.
• The Yadigarid Uzbeks found the Khanate of Khiva.
• Francis I of France starts to rule.
• Bartolome de Las Casas urges Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor to end Amerindian slavery and recommends the importation of blacks from Africa.
• First Congress of Vienna

Births

• January 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 (d. 1544)
• February 24 – Johann Weyer, German physician (d. 1588)
• March 28 – Saint Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (d. 1582)
• July 10 – Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa (d. 1584)
• July 21 – Philip Neri, Italian churchman (d. 1595)
• September 8 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (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, 6th son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his wife Maria of Aragon (d. 1540)
• October 8 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)
• November 22 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
• date unknown
  • Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, Scottish peer (d. 1558)
  • Sebastian Castellio, rector of the College of Geneva (d. 1563)
  • Cristóvão da Costa, 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)
  • Tomé de Sousa, first governor-general of Brazil (d. 1573)
  • Thomas Watson, Catholic bishop (d. 1584)
• probable
  • Jean Maillard, French composer
  • Laurence Nowell, 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)

See also :Category: 1515 births.

Deaths

• January 1 – King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
• January 15 – Diebold Schilling the Younger, Swiss chronicler
• February 6 – Aldus Manutius, Venetian printer (b. c. 1449)
• April 15 – Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and the first Great Hetman of the Crown (b. 1460)
• September 9 – Joseph Volotsky, prominent caesaropapist ideologist of the Russian Orthodox Church, who led the party defending monastic landownership
• 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)
• date unknown
  • Eoghan Mac Cathmhaoil, Irish, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher
  • Khan Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate (b. 1445)
  • Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect (b. in Carona (Ticino)1435)
  • Nezahualpilli, Aztec philosopher (b. 1464)
  • Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador (b. 1466)
  • Andreas Stoberl, Austrian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (b. 1465)

Eoghan Mac Cathmhaoil (1505 – 1515), Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher

• probable
  • Vincenzo Foppa, Italian Renaissance painter (b. 1430)

See also :Category: 1515 deaths.