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=== January–March === * [[January 24]] – [[Sigismund I the Old]] is formally crowned [[King of Poland]], at a ceremony in [[Kraków]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Myślenicki |first1=Wojciech |title=Pomorscy sprzymierzeńcy Jagiellończyków |date=1979 |publisher=Wydawn. Poznańskie |isbn=978-83-210-0093-0 |page=167 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5pFAAAAIAAJ&q=%20%2224%20stycznia%201507%22%20krakowie |access-date=30 June 2023 |language=pl}}</ref> * [[February 9]] – The crew of the Portuguese ship ''Cirne'', commanded by [[Diogo Fernandes Pereira]], become the first Europeans to sight the Indian ocean island of [[Réunion]], and name it Santa Apolonia.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rauville |first1=conte Hervé de |title=L'île de France: légendaire |date=1889 |publisher=Challamel |page=xiii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3YLAAAAIAAJ&dq=%229+f%C3%A9vrier+1507%22+santa+apolonia+cirne&pg=PR13 |access-date=30 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref> * [[March 1]] – Eleven months after the [[Lisbon Massacre]], [[Manuel I of Portugal|King Manuel I]] of [[Portugal]] issues an edict permitting the ''cristãos-novos'' ("New Christians", Portuguese Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity) to freely emigrate from the kingdom.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Yerushalmi |first1=Yosef Hayim |title=Sefardica: essais sur l'histoire des juifs, des marranes & des nouveaux-chrétiens d'origine hispano-portugaise |date=1998 |publisher=Editions Chandeigne |isbn=978-2-906462-45-8 |page=164 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8D1q1iUCRp4C&dq=manuel+crist%C3%A3os-novos+emigrar+%221+de+mar%C3%A7o+de+1507%22&pg=PA164 |access-date=30 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref> * [[March 11]] – Italian mercenary leader and former prince [[Cesare Borgia]], later cited by [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] in ''[[The Prince]]'' as an example of "conquest by fortune",<ref>{{cite book |last1=Machiavelli |first1=Niccolò |last2=Ricci |first2=Luigi |title=The Prince |date=1921 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=London |pages=24–25 |url=https://archive.org/details/princemac00machuoft/page/24/mode/2up?q=%22conquista+per+fortuna%22 |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref> completes his conquest of the Spanish city of [[Viana, Navarre|Viana]] by driving out the defenders of the castle of [[Louis de Beaumont, 2nd Count de Lerín|the Count of Lerín]], but makes the mistake of pursuing the fleeing enemy by himself. He is killed the next day by his captors.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Setton |first1=Kenneth Meyer |title=The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 |date=1976 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |isbn=978-0-87169-161-3 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EgQNAAAAIAAJ&dq=%2212+march+1507%22+Cesare+Borgia+viana&pg=PA14 |access-date=30 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=G. J. |title=The Borgias : The hidden history |date=2013 |publisher=Bantam Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-345-52691-5 |page=407 |url=https://archive.org/details/borgiashiddenhis0000meye/page/406/mode/2up?q=march |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref> * [[March 28]] – The revolutionary council of the [[Republic of Genoa]] declares a war against French invaders.<ref name="IT">{{cite book |last1=Mallett |first1=Michael Edward |title=The Italian Wars, 1494-1559 : war, state and society in early modern Europe |date=2012 |publisher=Pearson |isbn=978-0-582-05758-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/italianwars149410000mall/page/82/mode/2up?q=%2228+march%22 |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref>{{rp|83}}
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