Events from the year 1505 in India.
Events
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Viranarasimha Raya succeeds
Narasimha Raya II as king of
Vijayanagara Empire[Prof K.A. Nilakanta Sastry, History of South India, From Prehistoric times to fall of Vijayanagar, 1955, Oxford University Press, New Delhi (Reprinted 2002)] (reigns until
1509
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Year 1509 ( MDIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 21 – The Portuguese first arrive at the Seven Islands of Bombay and ...
)
*
Tristão da Cunha ceases his nominal (never took office)
governorship of
Portuguese India
The State of India ( pt, Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (''Estado Português da Índia'', EPI) or simply Portuguese India (), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a se ...
(commenced
1504
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Year 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 1 – French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish, u ...
)
*
Francisco de Almeida becomes governor of Portuguese India (and continues until
1509
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Year 1509 ( MDIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 21 – The Portuguese first arrive at the Seven Islands of Bombay and ...
)
* 7 April,
Francis Xavier, Roman Catholic missionary in India (dies 1552)
Deaths
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Narasimha Raya II, king of
Vijayanagara Empire
See also
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Timeline of Indian history
References
Years of the 16th century in India
1500s in India
India
1505 by country
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