Editing 1505

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[[File:Iberian mare clausum claims.svg|250px|thumb|January 24: Pope Julius II divides the world between Portugal and Spain]]
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[[File:LocationComoros.png|thumb|right|[[Arabs]] reach the [[Comoros]].]]
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Year '''1505''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Pope Julius II]] issues the papal bull ''Cum tam divino'', decreeing a reform in the Roman Catholic Church to prohibit [[simony]], the buying and selling of church offices ranging from bishops to the pope himself.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bull of POPE JULIUS II |url=https://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/Julius2-bull.html |website=www.csun.edu |access-date=27 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Lunkaran]] begins his reign as the [[Rao (title)|Rao]] of the Indian kingdom of [[Bikaner]] in what is now the Rajasthan state of India.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saran |first1=Richard |last2=Ziegler |first2=Norman P. |title=The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan: Select Translations Bearing on the History of a Rajput Family, 1462–1660, Volumes 1–2 |date=6 August 2020 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-90173-9 |page=194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vvr6DwAAQBAJ&q=%22january%2023%22 |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] &ndash; Under the terms of the [[Treaty of Tordesillas]], [[Pope Julius II]] sets the line of demarcation in the New World between Spain's and Portugal's territory as a line of [[longitude]] 370 [[league (unit)|leagues]] west of the [[Cape Verde]] islands.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vieira |first1=Alberto |title=As ilhas atlánticas para uma visâo dinâmica da sua história |journal=Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos |date=1 January 2004 |volume=1 |issue=50 |pages=219–264 |url=https://revistas.grancanaria.com/index.php/aea/article/view/841 |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=es |issn=2386-5571}}</ref> The ambiguous definition of the measure of a league places the line between 42°30' W to 49°45' W.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harrisse |first1=Henry |title=The Diplomatic History of America: Its First Chapter 1452-1493-1494 |date=1897 |publisher=B.F. Stevens |location=London |pages=102, 153 |url=https://archive.org/details/diplomatichisto01harrgoog/page/n118/mode/2up?q=%2242%22 |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=English}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; During a visit to [[Windsor Castle]] as guests of King [[Henry VII of England]], [[Philip I of Castile|Philip the Handsome]], Duke of Burgundy, plays a game of tennis against [[Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset]] in the first recorded use of tennis rackets. A year later, a chronicler notes that on the 7th of February, "the kynge of Castelle played w the Rackete and gave the marques xv".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marshall |first1=Julian |title=The Annals of Tennis |date=1878 |publisher="The Field" Office |location=London |page=62 |url=https://archive.org/details/annalstennis01marsgoog/page/n93/mode/2up |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=English}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] &ndash; Appointed as the Viceroy of Portuguese India by King [[Manuel I of Portugal]], Dom [[Francisco de Almeida]] departs from Portugal with [[7th Portuguese India Armada (Almeida, 1505)|an armada]] of 22 ships and 1,500 men, according to one estimate by [[João de Barros]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ferguson |first1=Donald William |title=The Discovery of Ceylon by the Portuguese in 1506 |journal=Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society |date=1908 |volume=19 |issue=59 |page=289 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqWTdWCjZg0C&q=%2225%20march%22 |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 31]] &ndash; King [[Alexander Jagiellon]] of Poland agrees to support the Act of ''[[Nihil novi]]'', prohibiting the king to issue laws without consent of the nobles represented by their parliament, the ''Sejm''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zamoyski |first1=Adam |title=The Polish way : a thousand-year history of the Poles and their culture |date=1988 |publisher=F. Watts |location=New York |isbn=978-0-531-15069-6 |page=99 |url=https://archive.org/details/polishwaythousa00zamo/page/98/mode/2up?q=%22granted+on%22 |access-date=27 June 2023}}</ref> The official title is "Nihil novi nisi commune consensu", Latin for "Nothing new without common consent."

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; Italian explorer [[Sebastian Cabot (explorer)|Sebastiano Caboto]] is granted a lifetime annuity of £10 per year by England's King Henry VII for services "in and aboute the fyndynge of the new founde landes" in North America.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ruddock |first1=Alwyn A. |title=The Reputation of Sebastian Cabot |journal=Historical Research |date=1 May 1974 |volume=47 |issue=115 |pages=95–99 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2281.1974.tb02183.x |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1974.tb02183.x |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=en |issn=0950-3471|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[April 27]] &ndash; In [[Tbilisi]], [[David X of Kartli|David X]] becomes the new ruler of the [[Kingdom of Kartli]] in what is now the Republic of Georgia, upon the death of his father [[Constantine II of Georgia|Constantine II]].
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Christ's College, Cambridge]], England, is re-founded, receiving its charter from [[Lady Margaret Beaufort]].<ref>A. H. Lloyd, ''The Early History of Christ's College, Cambridge, Derived from Contemporary Documents'' (Cambridge University Press, 1934) p. 283</ref>
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Poland]]'s Act of ''[[Nihil novi]]'' is granted by King Alexander I Jagiellon after being passed by the ''Sejm'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Choińska-Mika |first1=Joanna |title=Obywatele u władzy: narodziny, rozkwit i zmierzch szlacheckiej republiki |journal=Klio. Czasopismo poświęcone dziejom Polski i powszechnym |date=2013 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=23–54 |doi=10.12775/KLIO.2013.032 |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=664287 |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=Polish |issn=1643-8191|doi-access=free }}</ref> making Poland a [[Golden Liberty|Nobles' Democracy]] rather than an absolute monarchy.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nihil novi Constitution |url=https://polishhistory.pl/the-nihil-novi-constitution/ |website=Polish History |access-date=27 June 2023 |date=30 May 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; The M8.2–8.8 [[1505 Lo Mustang earthquake|Lo Mustang earthquake]] strikes [[Nepal]], causing severe damage in [[Kathmandu]], western Nepal, and some parts of the Indo-Gangetic plain.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Harsh K. Gupta|author2=Fareeduddin|title=Recent Advances in Earth System Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T-hQAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Geological Society of India|isbn=978-81-85867-83-0|pages=244, 381}}</ref>
* [[June 19]] &ndash; Zhu Houzhao, the 13-year-old son of the late [[Hongzhi Emperor]] of [[Ming Dynasty]] China, is enthroned as the [[Zhengde Emperor]] upon his father's death.<ref>{{cite book |last=李亚平 |title=帝国政界往事: 大明王朝纪事 |date=2005 |publisher=北京出版社 |isbn=978-7-200-06175-8 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rTdKAQAAIAAJ&q=%E6%98%8E%E6%AD%A6%E5%AE%97+19+%E5%85%AD%E6%9C%88+1505 |access-date=28 June 2023 |language=zh}}</ref>
* [[June 27]] &ndash; The future King [[Henry VIII of England]] repudiates his engagement to [[Catherine of Aragon]], at [[Henry VII of England|his father's]] command.<ref>{{cite book|author=Susan Doran|title=The Tudor Chronicles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-8LAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Quercus|isbn=978-1-84724-422-2|page=1496}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 2]]
**The [[Kalmar Bloodbath (1505)|Kalmar Bloodbath]], a mass execution of participants in the Swedish Uprising against [[John, King of Denmark|King Hans of Denmark]] (who also rules Norway and Sweden) takes place in the Swedish city of [[Kalmar]] after a judgment of treason is pronounced against the mayor, city officials and other leaders.<ref>C. F. Wegener, ''Årsberetninger fra Det Kongelige Geheimearchiv indeholdende Bidrag til Dansk Historie af utrykte Kilder''  [''Annual Reports from the Royal Archive Containing Contributions to Danish History from Published Sources''] (Rigsarkivet, 1870) p.323 (quoting Arild Hvitfeldt, Codex af Aelnoth, pp. 1053-1056)</ref><ref>G. Volm. Sylvander, Kalmar Slotts och Stads Historia [History of Kalmar Castle and City] (Tryckt Hos Otto Westin, 1865) p. 422</ref> 
**[[Martin Luther]], aged 22, vows to become a monk in a moment of terror, as a result of a close lightning strike during a thunderstorm, near the village of Stotternheim.<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward J. Hahnenberg|title=Table Talk with Martin Luther: A Modern Catholic's Conversations with the Founder of Protestantism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Y1mlrgTOvcC&pg=PA11|date=12 April 2005|isbn=978-1-4634-9168-0|pages=11|publisher=AuthorHouse }}</ref>
* [[July 17]] &ndash; Luther enters the monastic life, at an [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] cloister in [[Erfurt]] called [[St. Augustine's Monastery (Erfurt)|St. Augustine's Monastery]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kartawidjaja |first1=Yakub E. |title=Music in Martin Luther's Theology |date=12 April 2021 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=978-3-647-56553-8 |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oUQpEAAAQBAJ&q=augustinian |access-date=28 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 24]] &ndash; Travelling to [[India]], a group of Portuguese explorers led by Francisco de Almeida, with 22 ships and 1,500 men, sack the city-state of [[Kilwa Kisiwani|Kilwa]] in [[East Africa]], killing the Emir Abraham for failing to pay tribute. Almeida installs Mohammed Ankoni as the new ruler.<ref name=Bryce>James Bryce, ''The History of the World; a Survey of a Man's Record'', Volume III: West Asia and Africa (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903) p.484</ref>
* [[August 15]] &ndash; The [[Portuguese India|Portuguese State of India]] is founded in what is now the state of [[Kerala]], after the  [[Kingdom of Portugal]] takes over territory of the [[Adil Shahi dynasty|Bijapur sultanate]] at [[Kochi|Calicut]].
* [[August 16]] &ndash; Almeida's fleet destroys the East African city of [[Mombassa]].<ref name=Bryce/>
* [[September 13]]
** [[Francisco de Almeida]] arrives in the [[Anjediva Island]]s to begin construction on the first of four fortresses he needed to construct for his appointment as viceroy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Logan |first1=William |title=Malabar |date=1887 |publisher=Superintendent Government Press |location=Madras |page=311 |url=https://archive.org/details/MalabarLogan/page/n335/mode/2up |access-date=28 June 2023}}</ref>
** In what is now [[Algeria]], the Spanish Army under the command of [[Ramón de Cardona]], captures the city of [[Capture of Mers-el-Kébir (1505)|Mers-el-Kébir]], a port of the [[Kingdom of Tlemcen|Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen]], ruled by the Sultan [[Abu Abdallah V]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bravo |first1=Miguel Cabañas |title=Arte en tiempos de guerra |date=29 September 2009 |publisher=CSIC Press |isbn=978-84-00-08942-9 |page=87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hfuPwx3lq0C&dq=Mazalquivir+Ram%C3%B3n+de+Cardona+%2213+de+septiembre+de+1505%22&pg=PA87 |access-date=28 June 2023 |language=es}}</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Lucien, Lord of Monaco|Lucien Grimaldi]] takes over as the new [[List of rulers of Monaco|Lord of Monaco]] after stabbing his brother [[Jean II, Lord of Monaco|Jean II]] to death.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annales |date=1905 |volume=xix|publisher=Société des lettres, sciences et arts des Alpes-Maritimes |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tKMTAAAAYAAJ&dq=lucien+%2211+octobre+1505%22&pg=PA41 |access-date=28 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Delorme |first1=Philippe |title=Les Grimaldi: 700 ans d'une dynastie |date=1996 |publisher=Balland |isbn=978-2-7158-1126-3 |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhNbrnRktKMC&q=lucien+%2211+octobre+1505%22 |access-date=28 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] &ndash; In Portuguese India, the King of [[Kolathunadu|Cannanore]] gives permission to [[Francisco de Almeida]] to build the [[St. Angelo Fort|Fortaleza de Santo Ângelo]] in [[Kannur]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mathew |first1=K. M. |title=History of the Portuguese Navigation in India, 1497-1600 |date=1988 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-7099-046-8 |page=165 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kl3IR3RJTIEC&q=%2223+october%22 |access-date=28 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 6]] (October 27 O.S.) &ndash; [[Vasili III of Russia|Vasili III]] succeeds [[Ivan III of Russia|Ivan III]], as Grand Prince of [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovy]], comprising much of modern-day Russia.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bali︠a︡zin |first1=Vladimir Nikolaevich |title=Балязин Вольдемар Николаевич. Неофиц. история России. Ордынское иго и становление Руси |date=2006 |publisher=ОЛМА Медиа Групп |isbn=978-5-373-00673-6 |page=150 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9lG2SwEkCroC&dq=%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9+III+%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8+27+%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%8F%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8F+1505+%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0&pg=PA150 |access-date=28 June 2023 |language=ru}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] &ndash; Portuguese explorer [[Lourenço de Almeida]] and his fleet encounter a storm and are driven to the island of [[Sri Lanka]] and travels to [[Colombo]]. The King of Kotte, Dharma Parakramabahu IX, allows Almeida to build a trade station and a [[Catholic Church in Sri Lanka|Roman Catholic]] chapel.<ref>"Colombo (Sri Lanka)", in ''International Dictionary of Historic Places'', Volume 5: Asia and Oceania, ed. by Paul E. Schellinger and Robert M. Salkin (Taylor & Francis, 2012) p. 199</ref>
* [[November 24]] &ndash; The Treaty of Salamanca is signed by Spain's King [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] and [[Philip I of Castile|Philip, Duke of Burgundy]], agreeing that the two will serve as co-regents for [[Joanna of Castile|Joanna the Mad]], Queen of Castile.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Prawdin |first1=Michael |translator-last1=Paul|translator-first1=Eden|translator-last2=Paul|translator-first2=Cedar|title=The mad queen of spain |date=1939 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|url=https://archive.org/details/madqueenofspain0000mich/page/102/mode/2up?q=%22november+24%22 |access-date=28 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Érard de La Marck]] is elected [[Prince-Bishopric of Liège|prince-bishop of Liège]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter G. Bietenholz|author2=Thomas Brian Deutscher|title=Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hruQ386SfFcC&pg=RA1-PA383|date=1 January 2003|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8577-1|pages=383}}</ref>

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* The [[Watch 1505|Pomander Watch of 1505]], the earliest known [[pocket watch]], is made by [[Peter Henlein]] in Germany at [[Nuremberg]]. After an absence of 480 years, the watch will be rediscovered at a flea market in [[London]]; an inscription on the watch, "MDVPHN", will be interpreted in 2014 as meaning a rendition of the year (MDV, 1505 in Roman numerals); the inventor (PH for Peter Henlein) and the place of manufacture (N for Nuremberg).<ref>Nicholas Foulkes, ''Time Tamed'' (Simon & Schuster UK, 2019)</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJmneHVtn4''Peter Henlein: Watch 1505 - HR Fernsehen (German)''], [[hr-fernsehen]], German. Retrieved 2018-12-30.</ref>
* Portuguese merchants establish factories and fortresses on the east coast of Africa in [[Kilwa Kisiwani|Kilwa]], [[Sofala]], and [[Malindi]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scammell |first1=Geoffrey Vaughn |title=The world encompassed : the first European maritime empires, c. 800-1650 |date=1981 |publisher=Methuen |isbn=978-0-416-76280-8 |page=258 |url=https://archive.org/details/worldencompassed0000scam/page/258/mode/2up?q=kilwa |access-date=28 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[Bermuda]] is discovered by [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] explorer [[Juan de Bermúdez]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fernández Morente |first1=Guadalupe |title=Actas de las Jornadas de Historia sobre el Descubriminento de America: Tomo II|chapter=Juan Bermúdez : descubridor de las Islas Bermudas|date=2011 |publisher=Universidad Internacional de Andalucía |isbn=978-84-7993-211-4 |chapter-url=https://dspace.unia.es/handle/10334/7174 |access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[Judah Abravanel]] becomes personal physician to the viceroy of [[Naples]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abravanel |first1=Isaac |title=מדרש אברבנאל: מבחר הגיונותיו עה״ת |date=1987 |publisher=י. לדרמן |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SOsQAQAAIAAJ&q=1505 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=he}}</ref>
* [[Battle of Achnashellach]] in [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]]: The [[Clan Cameron]] emerges victorious over [[Clan Munro]] and [[Clan MacKay]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Battle of Achnashellach |url=http://www.clan-cameron.org/battles/1505.html |website=www.clan-cameron.org |access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>
* Portuguese explorer [[Gonçalo Álvares]] is the first to sight what will later be known as [[Gough Island]] in the [[South Atlantic]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hanel |first1=Christine |title=Gough Island: 500 years after its discovery : a bibliography of scientific and popular literature 1505 to 2005 : special article |journal=South African Journal of Science |date=2008 |volume=104 |issue=9 |page=329 |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/EJC96843 |access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>
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* The [[St Catherine's Monastery]] on the Sinai is captured and sacked by Bedouins. Though the Mamluk sultan attempts to punish the raiders, he is unable to subdue them and preserve order.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Panchenko |first1=Constantine A. |title=Arabic Christianity between the Ottoman Levant and Eastern Europe |date=24 August 2021 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-46583-1 |page=33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SnU_EAAAQBAJ |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[Old St. Peter's Basilica]] is demolished under the orders of [[Pope Julius II]]. Construction of the [[St. Peter's Basilica|new basilica]] begins the following year.

== Births ==
[[File:Mary (1505%E2%80%931558), Queen of Hungary.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|[[Mary of Hungary (governor of the Netherlands)|Mary of Hungary]]]]
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Louis, Count of Stolberg]], German nobleman (d. [[1574]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Liliencron |first1=Rochus Freiherr von |last2=Wegele |first2=Franz X. von |last3=Bettelheim |first3=Anton |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie |date=1893 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=339 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbwEAAAAIAAJ&dq=Ludwig+zu+Stolberg+%2212+januar+1505%22&pg=PA339 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg]], Imperial Elector (d. [[1571]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steinmüller |first1=Paul |title=Einführung der Reformation in die Kurmark Brandenburg durch Joachim II |date=1903 |publisher=Verein für Reformationsgeschichte |isbn=978-0-7905-5136-4 |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IIYRAAAAYAAJ&dq=Joachim+II++%2213+januar+1505%22&pg=PA28 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Mikołaj Rej]], Polish poet and prose writer, politician and musician of the Renaissance (d. [[1569]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gorton Carruth|title=The Encyclopedia of World Facts and Dates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zHwRAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-270012-4|page=229}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Aegidius Tschudi]], Swiss historian (d. [[1572]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wyss |first1=Georg von |title=Geschichte der historiographie in der Schweiz |date=1895 |publisher=Fäsi & Beer |page=196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HLsvAAAAYAAJ&dq=Aegidius+Tschudi+%225+februar+1505%22&pg=PA196 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Francisco Balbi di Correggio]] (d. [[1589]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Albert Ganado|author2=Maurice Agius-Vadalà|author3=George Mifsud Chircop|title=A Study in Depth of 143 Maps Representing the Great Siege of Malta of 1565|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxAZAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Bank of Valletta|isbn=978-99909-0-050-7|page=321}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle]], English heiress (d. [[1519]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richardson |first1=Douglas |title=Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011 |date=2005 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing House |isbn=978-1-4610-4520-5 |page=418 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&q=%2225+march+1505%22 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Levinus Lemnius]], Dutch writer (d. [[1568]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nagtglas |first1=F. |title=Levinus Lemnius en Zierikzee in de eerste helft der zestiende eeuw |date=1869 |publisher=Altorffer |page=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MYlnAAAAcAAJ |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Mary of Hungary (governor of the Netherlands)|Mary of Hungary]], Dutch ruler (d. [[1558]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=de Iongh |first1=Jane |title=Mary of Hungary: Second Regent of the Netherlands |date=1958 |publisher=W.W.NORTON & COMPANY |location=New York |page=16 |url=https://archive.org/details/maryofhungarysec006543mbp/page/n19/mode/2up?q=september |access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Anne de Laval, Viscountess of Thouars]], French noblewoman and nominal pretender to the Kingdom of Naples (d. [[1554]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Broussillon |first1=comte Arthur Bertrand de |title=La maison de Laval, 1020-1605: Les Montfort-Laval et leur cadets, 1501-1605 |date=1902 |publisher=A. Picard et fils |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EP4aAAAAYAAJ&dq=Anne+de+Laval+%2223+septembre+1505%22&pg=PA18 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Achilles Gasser]], German physician and astrologer (d. [[1577]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burmeister |first1=Karl Heinz |title=Achilles Pirmin Gasser, 1505-1577: Biographie |date=1970 |publisher=Pressler |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2z83BQMVj-oC&q=Achilles+Pirminius+Gasser+%223+november+1505%22 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Ercole Gonzaga]], Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. [[1563]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herbermann |first1=Charles George |last2=Pace |first2=Edward Aloysius |last3=Pallen |first3=Condé Bénoist |last4=Shahan |first4=Thomas Joseph |last5=Wynne |first5=John Joseph |last6=MacErlean |first6=Andrew Alphonsus |title=The Catholic Encyclopedia |date=1909 |volume=6|publisher=Robert Appleton Company |page=635 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLRAAQAAIAAJ&dq=Ercole+Gonzaga+%2223+november+1505%22&pg=PA635 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Philipp von Hutten]], German explorer (d. [[1546]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hutten |first1=Philipp von |last2=Schmitt |first2=Eberhard |title=Das Gold der Neuen Welt: die Papiere des Welser-Konquistadors und Generalkapitäns von Venezuela, Philipp von Hutten 1534-1541 |date=1996 |publisher=Verlag Frankenschwelle |isbn=978-3-86180-052-1 |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AlpuAAAAMAAJ&q=18%20dezember%201505%22 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton]], English politician (d. [[1550]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxzVAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Americana Corporation|isbn=978-0-7172-0107-5|page=334}}</ref>
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Christine of Saxony]], German noble (d. [[1549]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stichart |first1=Franz Otto |title=Galerie der sächsischen Fürstinnen: biographische Skizzen sämmtlicher Ahnfrauen des königlichen Hauses Sachsen |date=1857 |publisher=Fleischer |page=226 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XH8AAAAAcAAJ&dq=Christina+von+Sachsen+25+dezember+1505&pg=PA226 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Philip Hoby]], English politician (d. [[1558]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Hoby, Sir Philip (1504/5–1558) |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-13413 |year=2004 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/13413}}</ref>
** [[Guillaume Morel]], French classical scholar (d. [[1564]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The Encyclopaedia Britannica |date=1911 |volume=xviipublisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |page=828 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yYJVY9FWPeoC&dq=Guillaume+Morel+%221505%22+paris&pg=PA828 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Margaret Roper]], English writer (d. [[1544]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=McCutcheon |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Gentrup |first2=William |title=A Companion to Margaret More Roper Studies: Life Records, Essential Texts, and Critical Essays |date=5 August 2022 |publisher=CUA Press |isbn=978-0-8132-3544-8 |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xta8EAAAQBAJ&dq=Margaret+Roper+%221505%22&pg=PA4 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Shahghali]], Khan of Qasim<ref>{{cite book |last1=Khuzin |first1=F. |last2=Sitdikov |first2=Ayrat |title=Древняя Казань глазами современников и историков |date=1996 |publisher=Фест |location=Kazan |isbn=978-5-900866-04-8 |page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYBMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85%20%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%20(%20%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85%20%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%20)%20(%201505-1567%20)%22 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=ru}}</ref>
* ''probable'' 
** [[Christopher Tye]], English composer and organist (d. [[1572]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Stanford E. Lehmberg|title=The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QcABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA211|date=14 July 2014|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-5980-1|pages=211}}</ref>
** [[Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford]], English noblewoman (executed [[1542]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Julia |title=Jane Boleyn : the true story of the infamous Lady Rochford |date=2008 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0-7710-4776-3 |page=4 |url=https://archive.org/details/janeboleyntruest0000foxj_j9b7/page/4/mode/2up?q=1505 |access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
[[File:St. Jeanne de Valois.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|Saint [[Joan of France, Duchess of Berry|Jeanne de Valois]]]]
[[File:明孝宗像.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|Emperor [[Hongzhi Emperor|Hongzhi]]]]
[[File:Osannamantua.jpg|thumbnail|110px|Blessed [[Osanna of Mantua]]]]
[[File:Ivan III of Russia 3.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|[[Ivan III of Russia]]]]
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]], Italian politician (b. [[1431]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tuohy |first1=Thomas |title=Herculean Ferrara : Ercole d'Este, 1471-1505, and the invention of a ducal capital |date=1996 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-46471-0 |page=119 |url=https://archive.org/details/herculeanferrara0000tuoh/page/118/mode/2up?q=%2225+january%22 |access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Joan of France, Duchess of Berry|Jeanne de Valois]], French princess, [[Roman Catholic]] nun and saint (b. [[1464]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Emily Sarah Holt|title=Memoirs of Royal Ladies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA270|year=1861|publisher=Hurst and Blackett|pages=270}}</ref>
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Matilda of Hesse]], German noblewoman (b. [[1473]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Selby |first1=Walford Dakin |title=The Genealogist |date=1903 |publisher=George Bell & Sons |page=174 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TqJIAQAAMAAJ&dq=matilda+of+hesse+19+february+1505&pg=PA174 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Arvid Trolle]], Swedish politician (b. [[1440]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Snöbohm |first1=Alfred Theodor |title=Gotlands land och folk: Hufvuddragen till en teckning af Gotland och dess öden från äldre till nuvarande tider |date=1871 |publisher=Beijer |page=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fi1ZAAAAcAAJ&dq=Arvid+Birgersson+20+februari+1505&pg=PA213 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Philip of Cleves (bishop)|Philip of Cleves]], Bishop of Nevers, Amiens, Autun (b. [[1467]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fisquet |first1=Honoré Jean P. |title=La France pontificale |date=1864 |publisher=E. Repos |location=Paris |page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7Fjs_IdOSIC&dq=Philippe+de+Cl%C3%A8ves+%225+mars+1505%22&pg=PA71 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Sidonie of Bavaria]], eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich (b. [[1488]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=WIEDEMANN |first1=Theodor |title=Johann Turmair, genannt Aventinus, Geschichtschreiber des bayerischen Volkes. Nach seinem Leben und seinen Schriften dargestellt |date=1858 |publisher=Frans Datterer |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vX9ZAAAAcAAJ&dq=Sidonie+von+Bayern+%2229+marz+1505%22&pg=PA14 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Jaunpuri]], Indian-born religious leader (b. [[1443]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Husain Balkhi |first1=Syed |title=The Mahdi Maud AHS |url=http://khalifatullahmehdi.info/books/english/The-Mahdi-Maud-AHS.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140123091356/http://khalifatullahmehdi.info/books/english/The-Mahdi-Maud-AHS.pdf |access-date=29 June 2023|archive-date=January 23, 2014 }}</ref>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Ascanio Sforza]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1455]])<ref>{{cite book|author=George Haydn Huntley|title=Andrea Sansovino, Sculptor and Architect of the Italian Renaissance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C15JAQAAIAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-8371-5609-5|page=58}}</ref>
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Hongzhi Emperor]] of China (b. [[1470]])
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Osanna of Mantua]], Italian [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] tertiary and blessed (b. [[1449]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Matteucci |first1=Vittorio |title=Le chiese artistiche del Mantovano ... |date=1902 |publisher=Tip. eredi Segna |page=338 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_JlPAQAAMAAJ&dq=Osanna+Andreasi+%2218+giugno+1505%22&pg=PA338 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* July &ndash; [[Jacob Obrecht]], Flemish composer (plague) (b. [[1457]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Martin Picker|title=Johannes Ockeghem and Jacob Obrecht: A Guide to Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRoKAQAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Garland Pub.|isbn=978-0-8240-8381-6|page=49}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; Emperor [[Ivan III of Russia]] (b. [[1440]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Воробьев |first1=Александр |title=Великий князь Иван III Васильевич |date=15 May 2022 |quote=On October 27, 1505, Ivan Vasilievich passed away, having been on the throne for a little over 43 years. At the time of his death, he was 65 years old - an extremely respectable age for an era when the average life expectancy was almost half that.|publisher=ИД «Комсомольская правда» |isbn=978-5-04-049358-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8p5DgAAQBAJ&q=%20%22%2027%20%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%8F%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8F%201505%22 |access-date=29 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Adam of Fulda]], German music writer (b. c. [[1445]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Burkhalter, A. Louis|author2=Romain Goldron|title=Music of the Renaissance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xREwAQAAIAAJ|year=1968|publisher=H. S. Stuttman Company|page=87}}</ref>
** [[Heinrich Kramer]], German churchman and inquisitor (b. [[1430]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burns |first1=William E. |title=Witch hunts in Europe and America : an encyclopedia |date=2003 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport |isbn=978-0-313-32142-9 |page=158 |url=https://archive.org/details/witchhuntsineuro0000burn/page/158/mode/2up?q=1505 |access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>

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