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Year 1515 (MDXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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  • October 2 – In India, Suja Rathore of Marwar dies after ruling Marawar for 23 years, and two of his grandsons, Biram Singh Rathore and Rao Ganga, compete for the throne.
  • October 4 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan, surrenders to the French forces and is imprisoned until the arrival of King Francis.
  • October 8 – Portuguese explorer Juan Díaz de Solís departs from Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain with three ships and 70 men on a disastrous expedition toward the southern part of the continent of South America. Soon after landing at what is now Uruguay, Díaz and most of his crew are killed by the Charrúa people shortly after their arrival in January.
  • October 11 – King Francis enters the city of Milan with Charles III, Duke of Savoy and William IX, Marquis of Montferrat. Francis becomes Duke of Milan and sends Duke Maximilian into exile in France, providing hm with an annual annuity of 35,000 écus.{{cite book |title=The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe |first=Sharon L. |last=Jansen |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |page=271 |year=2002 }}
  • November 8 – At Jodhpur, Rao Ganga became the new ruler of the Kingdom of Marwar in what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan, after the Rathore nobility determine that he is better suited to rule than his older brother Rao Viramde or his cousin Biram Singh.{{cite book |last=Bhargava |first=Visheshwar Sarup |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbY9AAAAIAAJ |title=Marwar and the Mughal Emperors (A. D. 1526-1748) |date=1966 |location=Delhi |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal |page=12 |isbn=978-8-12150-400-3}}
  • November 15 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Roman Catholic Cardinal.
  • December 18 – King Francis I of France, victorious in the battle of Marignano in Italy and the new ruler of Milan, begins four days of meetings in Bologna with Pope Leo X.{{cite journal |first=Richard F. |last=Costigan |title=State Appointment of Bishops |journal=Journal of Church and State |volume=8| issue = 1, Winter |year=1966 |page=89 |doi=10.1093/jcs/8.1.82 }} King Francis agrees to ensure the Pope's authority over the Catholic Church in France, and Leo promises to support Francis' claim to the throne of Naples.
  • December 24 – Thomas Wolsey is named Lord Chancellor of England.
  • December 22 – The 3rd English Parliament of King Henry VIII closes with the King giving royal assent to the Avowries Act, the Kynges Revenues Act, the "Acte for the Staple of Calice" and "the Act avoiding pulling down of Towns".

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  • 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.{{cite web| url = http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/coloniallatinamerica/p/lascasas2.htm| title = Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) Part Two: Later Years| first1 = Christopher| last1 = Minster| work = About.com| date = 2015| access-date = 9 February 2015| archive-date = February 9, 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150209104030/http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/coloniallatinamerica/p/lascasas2.htm| url-status = dead}}{{cite web|url=http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/las_casas.html |title=Bartoleme de las Casas |work=OregonState.edu |date=2015 |access-date=9 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021226015714/http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/las_casas.html |archive-date=December 26, 2002 }}
  • 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

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Deaths

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References

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