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Year 1510 ( MDX) was a
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of the
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.


Events


January–March

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January 23 Events Pre-1600 * 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. * 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. * 1229 ...
– An 18-year-old
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jousts anonymously at Richmond, Surrey and draws applause, before revealing his identity. *
January 29 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler ...
– The ''
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'' ship is laid out. The next year the
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is launched on July 29, 1511, and is afterwards towed to
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to be fitted, and is finally completed in
1512 Year 1512 (Roman numerals, MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 2 – Svante Nilsson (regent of Sweden), Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden since 1504, dies at the a ...
. In 1545, during the Battle of the Solent, she sank. The reason for her sinking is disputed with contemporary accounts claiming the ship was heeled over or sank by French ships with gunfire, although modern historians believe it was sunk due to being unstable. *
January 31 Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades. * 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on th ...
Catherine of Aragon Catherine of Aragon (also spelt as Katherine, historical Spanish: , now: ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was List of English royal consorts, Queen of England as the Wives of Henry VIII, first wife of King Henry VIII from their marr ...
gives birth to her first child, and the first known child of King Henry VIII, a stillborn daughter. *
February 27 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantin ...
Portuguese conquest of Goa The Portuguese conquest of Goa occurred when the governor Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city in 1510 from the Sultanate of Bijapur. Old Goa became the capital of Portuguese India, which included territories such as Fort Manuel of Cochin, ...
: Afonso de Albuquerque of
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begins a nine month battle to conquer Goa off the coast of India. *
March 1 Events Pre-1600 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Diocleti ...
Battle of Salt River: Indigenous ǃUriǁʼaekua decisively defeat sailors of the
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in South Africa. *
March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of th ...
Mihnea cel Rău, the ruling Prince of Wallachia (now in Romania), is assassinated in Sibiu while attending Mass at the Roman Catholic church there.


April–June

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April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 &nd ...
– The " Disturbance of the Three Ports", an uprising by Japanese merchants against the Korean government, begins in what is now
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in the cities of Dongnae,
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and Ulsan. *
April 13 Events Pre-1600 * 1111 – Henry V, King of Germany, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. * 1455 – Thirteen Years' War: ...
Park Won-jong resigns as Chief State Councillor of the Korean Empire and is succeeded by Kim Su-dong. * April 19 – The simultaneous Japanese uprising in Korea is suppressed by the Korean Emperor Jungjong, and all trade between Korea and Japan is halted for the next two years. * April 27 – (4th waning of Kason 872 ME In what is now
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, Min Raza, King of Burma as ruler of the Kingdom of Arakan, leaves the capital city of Mrauk-U permanently and relocates to the old capital at Waithali, where he shows little interest in governing his kingdom. *
May 12 Events Pre-1600 * 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. * 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the ...
– The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan, Prince of Anhua, kills all the officials invited to a banquet, and declares his intent on ousting the powerful
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eunuch Liu Jin, during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor in China. * May 30 – Rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated and captured by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion. * June 5 – The Sultan Abu Abdallah V of
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(now part of
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) agrees to pay a demand for tribute to the Ferdinand II, King of Aragon (now part of Spain), prompting Ferdinand to plot an invasion of the neighboring kingdom
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and its capital, Tripoli.


July–September

* July 25Spanish troops capture Tripoli at the direction of King
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and under the command of Pedro Navarro. *
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– The Holy League, formed to defend the Italian States, attacks French-occupied
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. The 1510 influenza pandemic reaches
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, where it is nicknamed ''coccolucio,'' before spreading to the Italian states and the rest of Europe. * August 10 – The Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy is founded when Henrich Krummedige is appointed chief captain of all those who are at sea. * September 3 – Sir
Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VII ...
becomes undersheriff of the
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. * September 10 – ( Eishō 7, 18th day of the 8th month) An estimated 6.7 magnitude earthquake in the Seto Inland Sea (Setonaikai) strikes oof the coast of Japan near what is now Nanko-Higashi.


October–December

* October 10 – ( Eishō 7, 8th day of the 9th month) An earthquake in the Enshunada Sea off of the coast of
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in what is now the
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in Japan produces a devastating
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. * October 16Mingyi Nyo declares independence from the Ava Kingdom in upper Burma, by establishing the Toungoo dynasty. *
November 25 Events Pre-1600 *571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Ancient Rome, Rome, celebrates the first of his three Roman triumph, triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans. *1034 – Máel Coluim II of Scotland, Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, Ki ...
Afonso de Albuquerque succeeds in conquering Goa and establishes the colony of Portuguese India. * December 2
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: Shah Ismail I's defeats the Uzbek forces of Shaybani Khan, in Khorasan. Shaybani flees the battle only to be captured and killed by Ismail I troops, his head is turned into a skull cup used as a drinking goblet.


Date unknown

* The Grand Prince of Moscow Vasili III conquers
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. * publishes ''De Cardinalatu'', a manual for cardinals, including advice on palatial architecture – which inspires Thomas Wolsey in his construction work at Hampton Court Palace. *
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s are brought to Europe by Spaniards.


Births

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February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. ...
Costanzo II Sforza, Italian noble (d.
1512 Year 1512 (Roman numerals, MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 2 – Svante Nilsson (regent of Sweden), Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden since 1504, dies at the a ...
) *
March 25 Until 1752 it was the official date of the beginning of the year in England and its dominions (in the Julian calendar). Events Pre-1600 * 410 – The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending th ...
Guillaume Postel, French linguist (d. 1581) *
March 30 Events Pre-1600 * 598 – Avar–Byzantine wars: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic army is decimated by the plague. * 1282 ...
Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566) *
June 6 Events Pre-1600 * 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointe ...
Giovanni Battista Cicala, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1570) * August 11Margaret Paleologa, Sovereign Marchioness of Montferrat (1531–1540) (d. 1566) * August 24Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (1525–1540) (d. 1558) * October 6 ** Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (d. 1555) **
John Caius John Caius (born John Kays ; 6 October 1510 – 29 July 1573), also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Scholar and physician to Edward VI and Mary I ...
, English physician (d.
1573 Year 1573 (Roman numerals, MDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 25 (22nd day of 12th month of Genki (era), Genki 3 – At the Battle of Mikatagahara in Japan, ...
) * October 25Renée of France, French princess (d. 1574) * October 28Francis Borgia, Spanish General of the Jesuits (d. 1572) * December 28Nicholas Bacon, English politician (d. 1579) * ''date unknown'' ** Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (d. 1547) ** Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian founder of the Unitarian Church (d. 1579) ** Solomon Luria, Polish-born Kabbalist (d. 1574) ** Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (d. 1551) ** Bernard Palissy, French potter and writer ** Elizabeth Lucar, English calligrapher (d. 1537) ** Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (d. 1590) ** Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (d. 1571) ** Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer (d. 1564) ** Gracia Mendes Nasi, Portuguese businessperson and philanthropist (d. 1569) **
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (; 1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542 ...
, Spanish conquistador (d. 1554) * ''probable'' ** Tullia d'Aragona, Italian poet, author and philosopher (d. 1556) ** Aloysius Lilius, Italian inventor of the Gregorian calendar (d. 1576) ** Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (d. 1586) ** Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist and author (d. 1565) ** Claudio Veggio, Italian composer


Deaths

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February 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), ...
Sidonie of Poděbrady, Bohemian princess, duchess consort of Saxony (b. 1449) *
February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic), Fourth Council of Co ...
Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (b. c. 1460) *
March 1 Events Pre-1600 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Diocleti ...
Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. c. 1450) *
March 10 Events Pre-1600 * 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. * 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes ...
Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, German preacher (b. 1445) * May 17Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445) *
May 25 Events Pre-1600 * 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. * 240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes ...
– Cardinal Georges d'Ambroise, aka Monseigneur le Ledat. Adviser to King Louis XII of France. (b. 1460) * July 10Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (b. 1454) * July 14Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the Scottish throne (b. 1509) * July 27Giovanni Sforza, Italian condottiere (b. 1466) * August 17 ** Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. c. 1462) ** Richard Empson, English statesman * September 15 – Saint Catherine of Genoa (b.
1447 Year 1447 (Roman numerals, MCDXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 4 – Barnaba Adorno becomes the new Doge of Genoa, Doge of the Republic of Genoa when his cousin :i ...
) * September 17Giorgione, Italian painter (b. c. 1477) * September 18Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1488) *
November 11 Events Pre-1600 * 308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor ''emeritus'' Diocletian confers with Galerius, '' Augustus'' of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former ''Augustus'' of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of th ...
Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian writer (b. 1461) * December 2Muhammad Shaybani, Khan of
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(b. 1451) * December 14Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473) * December 31Bianca Maria Sforza, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1472) * ''date unknown'' ** Agüeybaná, Taino chief ** Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, Italian regent (b. 1478) ** Mandukhai Khatun, Mongolian queen


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