1505

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1502 1503 1504 – 1505 – 1506 1507 1508

Events

• March 5 – Papal dispensation issued for the marriage of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon
• Portuguese under Dom Lourenço d'Almeida reach Colombo, Sri Lanka and send envoys to King of Kotte.
• 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.