Year 1515

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

Events

January–June

• January 25 – Francis I of France is crowned (r. until 1547).
• 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, 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.
• Dürer’s Rhinoceros is cut.
• The Ottoman conquers the last beyliks of Anatolia, the Dulkadir’s and the Ramadanid.
• 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 Sultan (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)