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1505 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- Portuguese under Dom Lourenço d'Almeida reach Colombo, Sri Lanka and send envoys to King of Kotte.
- 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
- February 5 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
- September 18 - Maria of Austria, queen of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1558)
- Joachim II of Brandenburg, Imperial Elector (died 1571)
- William Cavendish, English courtier (died 1557)
- Philip Hoby, English politician (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, Turkish Janissary (died 1579)
- Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (died 1550)
- Christopher Tye, English composer and organist (died 1572)
- Jean Le Veneur, French cardinal
Deaths
- February 4 - Jane de Valois, daughter of Louis XI of France (born 1464)
- June 8 - Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
- October 27 - Ivan III of Russia (born 1440)
- Heinrich Kramer, churchman and inquisitor (born 1430)
- July - Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer (plague) (born 1457)
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