Editing 1505 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Pope Julius II]] issues the papal bull ''Cum tam divino'', decreeing a reform in the Roman Catholic Church to prohibit [[simony]], the buying and selling of church offices ranging from bishops to the pope himself.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bull of POPE JULIUS II |url=https://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/Julius2-bull.html |website=www.csun.edu |access-date=27 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Lunkaran]] begins his reign as the [[Rao (title)|Rao]] of the Indian kingdom of [[Bikaner]] in what is now the Rajasthan state of India.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saran |first1=Richard |last2=Ziegler |first2=Norman P. |title=The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan: Select Translations Bearing on the History of a Rajput Family, 1462–1660, Volumes 1–2 |date=6 August 2020 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-90173-9 |page=194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vvr6DwAAQBAJ&q=%22january%2023%22 |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] &ndash; Under the terms of the [[Treaty of Tordesillas]], [[Pope Julius II]] sets the line of demarcation in the New World between Spain's and Portugal's territory as a line of [[longitude]] 370 [[league (unit)|leagues]] west of the [[Cape Verde]] islands.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vieira |first1=Alberto |title=As ilhas atlánticas para uma visâo dinâmica da sua história |journal=Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos |date=1 January 2004 |volume=1 |issue=50 |pages=219–264 |url=https://revistas.grancanaria.com/index.php/aea/article/view/841 |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=es |issn=2386-5571}}</ref> The ambiguous definition of the measure of a league places the line between 42°30' W to 49°45' W.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harrisse |first1=Henry |title=The Diplomatic History of America: Its First Chapter 1452-1493-1494 |date=1897 |publisher=B.F. Stevens |location=London |pages=102, 153 |url=https://archive.org/details/diplomatichisto01harrgoog/page/n118/mode/2up?q=%2242%22 |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=English}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; During a visit to [[Windsor Castle]] as guests of King [[Henry VII of England]], [[Philip I of Castile|Philip the Handsome]], Duke of Burgundy, plays a game of tennis against [[Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset]] in the first recorded use of tennis rackets. A year later, a chronicler notes that on the 7th of February, "the kynge of Castelle played w the Rackete and gave the marques xv".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marshall |first1=Julian |title=The Annals of Tennis |date=1878 |publisher="The Field" Office |location=London |page=62 |url=https://archive.org/details/annalstennis01marsgoog/page/n93/mode/2up |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=English}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] &ndash; Appointed as the Viceroy of Portuguese India by King [[Manuel I of Portugal]], Dom [[Francisco de Almeida]] departs from Portugal with [[7th Portuguese India Armada (Almeida, 1505)|an armada]] of 22 ships and 1,500 men, according to one estimate by [[João de Barros]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ferguson |first1=Donald William |title=The Discovery of Ceylon by the Portuguese in 1506 |journal=Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society |date=1908 |volume=19 |issue=59 |page=289 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqWTdWCjZg0C&q=%2225%20march%22 |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 31]] &ndash; King [[Alexander Jagiellon]] of Poland agrees to support the Act of ''[[Nihil novi]]'', prohibiting the king to issue laws without consent of the nobles represented by their parliament, the ''Sejm''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zamoyski |first1=Adam |title=The Polish way : a thousand-year history of the Poles and their culture |date=1988 |publisher=F. Watts |location=New York |isbn=978-0-531-15069-6 |page=99 |url=https://archive.org/details/polishwaythousa00zamo/page/98/mode/2up?q=%22granted+on%22 |access-date=27 June 2023}}</ref> The official title is "Nihil novi nisi commune consensu", Latin for "Nothing new without common consent."