1505

Events

• March 5 – Papal dispensation issued for the marriage of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon
• June 27 – Henry VIII of England repudiates his engagement to Catherine of Aragon, at his father's command
• King Alexander_of_Poland signed "Nihil_novi" act – Poland became Nobles' Democracy
• Poland prohibits peasants from leaving their lands, establishing serfdom
• Christ's College, Cambridge founded.
• Vasili III succeeds Ivan III as Grand Prince of Muscovy.
• Idiosa III of Chardonnay murdered.
• Arabs reach Comoros.
• Judah Abravanel becomes personal physician to the viceroy of Naples.

Births

• January 30 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (died 1585)
• Joachim II of Brandenburg, Imperial Elector (died 1571)
• William Cavendish, English courtier (died 1557)
• Philip Hoby, politician of the Tudor era (died 1558)
• Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary (died 1558)
• Guillaume Morel, French classical scholar (died 1564)
• Shahgali, khan of Qasim
• Mehmed Sokollu, Grand Vizier of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II (died 1579)
• Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, Serbian soldier of the Ottoman Empire (died 1579)
• Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, politician of the Tudor period (died 1550)
• Christopher Tye, English composer and organist (died 1572)

Deaths

• February 4 – Jane de Valois, daughter of Louis XI of France (born 1464)
• October 27 – Ivan III of Russia (born 1440)
• Hongzhi Emperor, of the Ming Dynasty of China
• Heinrich Kramer, churchman and inquisitor (born 1430)
• July – Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer (plague) (born 1457)