This page relates to the year 1505 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Africa

  • July 24th: Bag of Kiloa
    • the Portuguese Francisco de Almeida subjects Sofala and Kiloa without difficulties, then Mombasa after combat ( August). The Portugal will annex or vassalize the majority of the other cities of the Eastern coast of Africa.
  • the Portuguese build a fort with Sofala, and try to come into contact with the Monomotapa (Zimbabwe), which reigns on several gold mines, in spite of the hostility of the Arabs. They establish forts on the Zambezi, like Séna and Tété.
  • Forwarding of Alfonso de Albuquerque with Madagascar.

  • Beginning of the reign of Alfonso Ier (Nzinga Mbemba) Christian king of the Kongo (fine in 1543).
  • the Songhaï invade the empire of the Mali. Askia Mohammed continues the Mandé west.
  • the Ethiopian pilgrims come from Jerusalem to Rome obtain the establishment of a hotel trade behind Saint-Pierre of Rome, beside San Stefano, which will become San Stefano dei Mori, because this church will be conceded to them. By precaution, before allowing them to celebrate the mass in their rite, one examines their liturgical books, which gives to Thésée d' Amboise the opportunity to publish a grammar of their language, qualified the “chaldaïque one”.

Asia & Indian world

  • June 19th: Beginning of the reign of Zhengde, emperor Ming of China (fine in 1521).

  • Tibet : Lobsang Dondrup becomes third Panchen-lama (named retroactively, end in 1566).
  • Muhammad Chaybani takes Khiva and Balkh (1505-1506). The Uzbek are the first power of Central Asia.

India

  • March 25th: Departure of Lisbon of the forwarding of Francisco de Almeida towards the India S (fine in 1507). He becomes the first viceroy of the Indies Portuguese (end in 1509). Manuel Ier of Portugal orders to him to organize the system of the pressed (race) against the ships not - authorized and to ensure the monopoly of its navy while cutting the way of the Red Sea.
    • Francisco de Almeida reinforces the fortress Sant' Angelo for better controlling the traffic and seizing cargoes not - authorized. The merchants Indian, dissatisfied, assassinate and burn with Cochin Feitor de Kollam and twelve of his/her companions taken refuge in a church. The reprisals are immediate and the son of the viceroy destroys all the flotilla of the merchants, 27 ships which burn with their cargo of spices, invaluable stones, horses and elephants. The Moslems of Canador call some with revenge, the seat of this fortress accelerating the cycle of the attacks and the war. The fleet of Calicut answers the call, but is demolished thanks to Portuguese artillery. The Moslems of Canador resist artillery while protecting themselves by enormous cotton bolls on which the shells diminish, until the day when the Portuguese have the idea to put fire at these balls.

  • Début of the reign of Transfered Narasimha, emperor of the Vijayanagar (fine in 1509). Wire of the “mayor of the palate” Narasa Nayaka, it makes assassinate the emperor of Vijayanagar and assumes the imperial function.
  • Countryside of Bâbur to the Panjab.
  • the Portuguese reach Ceylon.

The Middle East & world arabo-Moslem

Europe

  • May 3rd, Poland: Constitution Nihil novi , which places the king under the control of the diet. A constitutional monarchy is established by the diet of Radom. The king grants the statute nihil novi : “ Nothing again could be issued by us and our successors… without the common assent of the senators and the deputies of the country. ” the Diet acquires a legislative role and the Senate a deliberative legislative matter function.
  • April 6th: Louis XII receives from the emperor Maximilien the Investiture of the Duché of Milan.
  • July 2nd: Martin Luther, Master be Arts at the university of Erfurt decides after wishes with the Virgin, one day of storm, to return in the orders (1507).
  • September 30th: In front of the complaints against the atrocities made by the Enquiry, Philippe the Beautiful and Jeanne Insane the suspends any action of the Enquiry in Spain until their return of the Flandres.
  • October 27th, Russia: Beginning of the reign of Vassili III (1479 - 1533) prince of Moscow. He inherits his father Ivan III the three quarter of the state-owned properties and obtains only the sovereign rights. He inherits his mother Sophie Paléologue the title of Tsar without to carry it regularly. His/her four brothers share only one about thirty cities.
  • December 30th: Érard of Marck is unanimously elected Prince-bishop Liege, with the support of the Pape Jules II (1503 - 1513) and of the King de France Louis XII, against Jacques de Croy, bishop of Cambric, is supported by Philippe the Beautiful.

  • nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
    • agricultural Crisis in Europe (1505 - 1506).
    • very soft Winter in the South of the France.
    • Taken Kazan' by the Tatars. Vassili III establishes a line of cities strengthened against Tatars de Kazan' and of the Crimea (line of Oka).
    • Spain: The the Cortes of Toro (Zamora) generalize the institution of the majorat.
    • the gran capitan Gonzalve de Cordoue reorganizes the Spanish army according to a hierarchical diagram: 12 companies (captain) of 500 men forms a coronelia (colonel). Several coronelias forms an army ( maestro of campo ).

Art & culture

  • Alevisio Nuovo rebuilds the collegial one of the Archangel with Moscow.
  • Cranach becomes painter at the court of the voters of Saxony to Wittenberg (fine in 1550).
  • Apollo and Diane , engraving on copper of Albrecht To last.
  • mystical Marriage of holy Catherine (1505-1510), fabric of Gerard David.

Births in 1505

Death in 1505

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