1507 - Definition and Overview

Events

• The western continent is named America on the maps of Martin Waldseemüller.

Births

• December 18 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord
• Anne Boleyn, later second Queen consort of Henry VIII of England. (Another possible year of birth is 1502).
• Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian lutenist and composer

Deaths

• March 12 - Cardinal Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI
• July 29 - Martin Behaim, navigator, geographer (* 1459)