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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 (reigns 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, as the first settlers arrive to the north coast of Madeira Island, there establishing Saint George.

* ''Dürer's Rhinoceros'' is cut.
* The Ottomans conquer the last beyliks of Anatolia, the Beylik of Dulkadir and the Ramadanid Emirate.
* 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)

References

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