1505 - Definition and Overview

Events

• March 5 - Papal dispensation issued for the marriage of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon
• 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

• John Knox, Scottish religious reformer, founder of the Presbyterian Church
• Thomas Tallis, English composer
• Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (possibly born 1504)
• Christopher Tye, English composer

Deaths

• Ivan III of Russia
• Jacob Obrecht, Franco-Flemish composer, of plague in Ferrara