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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