1515

Year 1515 was a  (link will display the full calendar) of the.

January - June

 * - Invasion of Persia by Sultan of the.

July - December

 * - Selim captures the Persian capital of without encountering any resistance, but is unable to hold it.




 * - -  - The army of  defeats the, thanks to the timely arrival of a Venetian army.  Francis restores French control of.
 * - invested as a.
 * - is named the English.

Undated

 * conquers.
 * The is founded.
 * Conquistador founded,.
 * Yadigarid found the.

Births

 * -, Polish magnate (died )
 * -, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (died )
 * -, German physician (died )
 * -, German physician (died )
 * - Saint, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (died )
 * -, (died )
 * -, Italian churchman (died )
 * -, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (died )
 * -, fourth queen of (died )
 * -, German painter (died )
 * -, sixth son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his wife Maria of Aragon (died )
 * -, Countess of Lennox (died )
 * -, queen of and regent of Scotland (died )
 * date unknown
 * , Scottish peer (died )
 * , rector of the College of Geneva (died )
 * , Portuguese doctor and natural historian (died )
 * , 12th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (died )
 * , French humanist scholar (died )
 * , Master of Requests for Elizabeth I of England (died )
 * , first governor-general of Brazil (died )
 * , Catholic Bishop (died )
 * probable
 * , French composer
 * , antiquarian (died )
 * , Flemish composer and teacher (died )
 * , English churchman, last abbot of Westminster (died )
 * , Scottish reformer (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * - King (born )
 * -, Swiss chronicler
 * -, Venetian printer (born c)
 * -, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and the first Great Hetman of the Crown (born )
 * -, prominent caesaropapist ideologist of the Russian Orthodox Church who led the party defending monastic landownership
 * October -, Venetian general (born )
 * -, Italian painter (born )
 * -, Spanish general and statesman (born )
 * -, Portuguese naval general (born )
 * date unknown
 * , khan of the Crimean Khanate (born )
 * , Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona (Ticino) (born )
 * , Aztec philosopher (born )
 * , Spanish conquistador (born )
 * , Austrian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (born )
 * probable
 * , Italian Renaissance painter (born )


 * See also .