1505: Difference between revisions

1505 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1505; MDV
Ab urbe condita	2258
Armenian calendar	954; ԹՎ ՋԾԴ
Assyrian calendar	6255
Balinese saka calendar	1426–1427
Bengali calendar	912
Berber calendar	2455
English Regnal year	20 Hen. 7 – 21 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2049
Burmese calendar	867
Byzantine calendar	7013–7014
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat); 4202 or 3995; — to —; 乙丑年 (Wood Ox); 4203 or 3996
Coptic calendar	1221–1222
Discordian calendar	2671
Ethiopian calendar	1497–1498
Hebrew calendar	5265–5266
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1561–1562
- Shaka Samvat	1426–1427
- Kali Yuga	4605–4606
Holocene calendar	11505
Igbo calendar	505–506
Iranian calendar	883–884
Islamic calendar	910–911
Japanese calendar	Eishō 2; (永正２年)
Javanese calendar	1422–1423
Julian calendar	1505; MDV
Korean calendar	3838
Minguo calendar	407 before ROC; 民前407年
Nanakshahi calendar	37
Thai solar calendar	2047–2048
Tibetan calendar	阳木鼠年; (male Wood-Rat); 1631 or 1250 or 478; — to —; 阴木牛年; (female Wood-Ox); 1632 or 1251 or 479

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century; 16th century ; 17th century;
Decades:	1480s; 1490s; 1500s ; 1510s; 1520s;
Years:	1502; 1503; 1504; 1505 ; 1506; 1507; 1508;

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Year 1505 (MDV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

July 2 - Martin Luther, then 22, vows to become a monk in a moment of terror, due to a near lightning strike during a thunderstorm, near the village of Stotternheim.
July 17 - Luther enters the monastic life at an Augustinian cloister in Erfurt.
July 24 - Travelling to India, a group of Portuguese explorers sack the city-state of Kilwa in East Africa, killing the king for failing to pay tribute.
December 18 - John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lièges, Belgium, is executed.

A Portuguese fleet attacks Kilwa and then Mombasa. The Portuguese then attempt to monopolize the trade in the east African ports, but are unable to maintain control (by the late 1500s, Swahili groups regain control of several ports from the Portuguese).
Portuguese merchants establish factories on the east coast of Africa.
Portuguese under Dom Lourenço d'Almeida reach Colombo, Sri Lanka and send envoys to King of Kotte.
King Alexander of Poland signs the Nihil novi Act, making Poland a Nobles' Democracy.
Poland prohibits peasants from leaving their lands, establishing serfdom.
Christ's College, Cambridge is founded.

See also Category: 1505 births.

February 4 - Jeanne de Valois, daughter of Louis XI of France (b. 1464)
February 20 - Arvid Trolle, Swedish politician (b. c. 1440)
April 23 - Muhammad Jaunpuri, religious leader (b. 1443)
June 8 - Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
June 15 - Ercole d'Este I, Duke of Ferrara (b. 1431)
July - Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer (plague) (b. 1457)
October 27 - Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
date unknown
- Adam of Fulda, music writer (b. c. 1445)
- Heinrich Kramer, churchman and inquisitor (b. 1430)

See also Category: 1505 deaths.

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 * The [[Arabs]] reach the [[Comoros]].
 * [[Judah Abravanel]] becomes personal physician to the viceroy of [[Naples]].
-* Bermuda is discovered by the Portuguese explorer '''Juan de Bermudez'''.
+* Bermuda is discovered by the Portuguese explorer [[Juan de Bermúdez]].
 * [[Battle of Achnashellach]] said to have taken place in Scotland.
 ==Births==