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1515{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years: 1512 1513 1514 - 1515 - 1516 1517 1518 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s |- | align="center" | Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |} ==Events== *June - Invasion of Persia by Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire. *August 23 - Battle of Chaldiran. Selim I crushes the Persian army of Shah Ismail I. *September 5 - Selim captures the Persian capital of Tabriz without encountering any resistance, but is unable to hold it. *September 13 - September 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 Cardinal Wolsey invested as a Cardinal (Catholicism) *Sweden declared independence. *Ottoman Empire conquers Kurdistan. ==Year in topics== *1515 in art ==Births== * March 28 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (died 1582) * July 21 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (died 1595) * September 8 - Alfonso Salmeron, biblical scholar and one of the first Jesuits (died 1585) * September 22 - Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII of England (died 1557) * October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German Renaissance painter (died 1586) * October 8 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (died 1578) * November 22 - Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland (died 1560) * Cristobal Acosta, Portuguese doctor and natural historian (died 1580) * Sebastian Castello, rector of the College of Geneva (died 1563) * Valerius Cordus, German physician (died 1544) * Sebastian Franck, German freethinker (died 1543) * Petrus Ramus, French humanist scholar (died 1572) * Mikolaj Czarny Radziwill, Polish magnate (died 1565) * Cypriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (died 1565) * Thomas Seckford, Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England (died 1587) * John Sheppard, English composer and organist (died 1560) * Francisco de Toledo, third Count of Oropesa (died 1584) * Johann Weyer, German physician (died 1588) ==Deaths== * January 1 - King Louis XII of France (born 1462) * January 15 - Diebold Schilling the Younger, author of the "Luzerner Schilling" * February 6 - Aldus Manutius, founder of the Aldine Press * November 5 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (born 1474) * December 1 - Hernandez Gonzalo de Cordoba, Spanish general * December 16 - Alfonso d'Albuquerque, Portuguese general-at-sea (born 1453) * Antoine Brumel, Franco-Flemish composer (born 1460) * Nezahualpilli of Texcoco, Aztec philosopher (born 1464) * Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish conquistador (born 1466) 1515 la:1515 os:1515 15151510s See other meanings of words starting from letter:A | B | C | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z | |
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