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Year 1515 ( MDXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1515
January - June
July - December
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.
December 24 - Thomas Wolsey is named the English Lord Chancellor.
Undated
Ottoman Empire conquers Kurdistan.
The Manchester Grammar School is founded.
Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded Havana, Cuba.
Yadigarid Uzbeks found the Khanate of Khiva.
Births
January 4 - Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (died 1565)
February 14 - Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (died 1576)
February 18 - Valerius Cordus, German physician (died 1544)
February 24 - Johann Weyer, German physician (died 1588)
March 28 - Saint Teresa of Ávila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (died 1582)
July 10 - Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, (died 1584)
July 21 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (died 1595)
September 8 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (died 1585)
September 22 - Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII of England (died 1557)
October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (died 1586)
October 7 - Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, sixth son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his wife Maria of Aragon (died 1540)
October 8 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (died 1578)
November 22 - Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (died 1560)
date unknown
probable
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Deaths
January 1 - King Louis XII of France (born 1462)
January 15 - Diebold Schilling the Younger, Swiss chronicler
February 6 - Aldus Manutius, Venetian printer (born c1449)
April 15 - Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and the first Great Hetman of the Crown (born 1460)
September 9 - Joseph Volotsky, prominent caesaropapist ideologist of the Russian Orthodox Church who led the party defending monastic landownership
October - Bartolomeo d'Alviano, Venetian general (born 1455)
November 5 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (born 1474)
December 2 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (born 1453)
December 16 - Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese naval general (born 1453)
date unknown
probable
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