The Lan Na kingdom had been strongest under Tilokaraj (1441–1487), but has since been subjected to old-style princely struggles that have prevented the kingdom from defending itself against powerful growing neighbors.

The Shans have broken free of the control that Tilokaraj had established.

The last strong ruler is Paya Kaew, who is the great-grandson of Tilokaraj.

Continually menaced by the larger Thai polity of Ayutthaya and thus maintaining an aggressive stance towards his neighbor, Kaew takes the offensive into Ayutthayan territory in 1507.

The Ayutthayans, however, repel his forces in hard fighting near Sukhothai.

The Shan state of Mohnyin, centered in the region of present northeastern Burma (Myanmar), has cast off its status as a Chinese tributary and intensifies its raids into the Burmese kingdom of Ava.

Ava attempts unsuccessfully, in 1507, to appease the Shans, who continue their attacks.

The Burmese kingdom of Toungoo to the south declines to answer Ava’s request of support.

Sigismund, also recently crowned King of Poland, sends envoys to Moscow in 1507 requesting the to return of the territories acquired by the 1503 truce.

At the same time, Crimean Khan Meñli I Giray breaks off his alliance with Moscow due to its campaign against Kazan.

Sigismund receives an iarlyk from the Khan for the Muscovite territories of Novgorod, Pskov, Ryazan.

Sigismund urges the Lithuanian parliament in February 1507 to declare war on the Grand Duchy of Muscovy, which subsequently will strengthen Polish-Lithuanian suzerainty in the east.

Sigismund prepares for a massive military campaign against Russia.

Some fighting ensues, but no significant battles occur.

Sigismund, elected King of Poland in December 1506 during the session of the Polish Senate in Piotrków, on January 20, 1507, arrives in Kraków and is crowned four days later in Wawel Cathedral by Primate Andrzej Boryszewski.

Husayn Beg campaigns in 1507 in western Iran, where he is ambushed by a group of Kurds and as a result loses three hundred men.

During the same year, …

…Ismail appoints the Iranian Amir Najm al-Din Mas'ud Gilani as the new vakil.

This is because Ismail had begun favoring the Iranians more than the Qizilbash, who although they had played a crucial role in Ismail's campaigns, possess too much power and are no longer very trustworthy.

Eastern Persia has experienced its own cultural flowering under Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara, the Timurid ruler of Herat, who has controlled the region from 1469.

The Uzbeks had in 1501 conquered Transoxiana from the Timurid Babur.

Under Muhammad Shaybani, the Uzbeks could now threaten Khurasan.

Husayn, suffering from the effects of advanced age, had made no move against them, even after Babur advised him to act, and the Uzbeks had began conducting raids into Khurasan.

Finally changing his mind, he had begun to march against them but died in 1506 just after beginning his advance.

The inheritance of his empire had been disputed between his sons Badi' and Muzaffar Husain.

Babur, who had begun an expedition in support of Husayn, noted the infighting between the brothers, decided the area is impossible to defend, and retreated.

The next year, Muhammad Shaybani conquers Herat and causes Husayn's successors to flee, putting an end to Timurid rule in Khurasan.

The Zamorin meanwhile succeeds in persuading the Kōlattiri of Cannanore of the true imperialistic motives of Portuguese in Kerala.

The Kōlattiri is already annoyed and angered with the Portuguese for their violation of the safe conduct guaranteed to the ships of Muslim merchants of Cannanore.

The Kōlattiri puts up a common fight against the Portuguese besieging Fort St. Angelo at the Siege of Cannanore.

Almeida's mission is strengthened in 1507 by the arrival of Tristão da Cunha's squadron.

Afonso de Albuquerque's squadron had however split from that of Cunha off east Africa and is independently conquering territories to the west.

A Portuguese fleet commanded by Tristão da Cunha with Afonso de Albuquerque lands in 1507 on the mountainous island of Socotra, situated at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean, and captures the port of Suq after a stiff battle.

Their objective is to set a base in a strategic place on the route to India, and to liberate the presumed friendly Christians from Islamic rule.

Tomás Fernandes starts to build a fortress at Suq, the Forte de São Miguel de Socotorá.

However, the infertility of the land leads to famine and sickness in the garrison.

Moreover, the lack of a proper harbor for wintering leads to the loss of many moored Portuguese ships, the most important of which is the Santo António galleon under the command of captain Manuel Pais da Veiga.