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1510

Year 1510 (MDX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–June

  • January – Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter.
  • January 23 – An 18-year-old Henry VIII of England jousts anonymously at Richmond, Surrey and draws applause before revealing himself.
  • February 27 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Goa.
  • May 12 – 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 Ming dynasty 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.

    • July–December

  • July – The Holy League, formed to defend the Italian States, attacks French-occupied Genoa.
  • December 2 – Battle of Marv: Shah Ismail I defeats the Uzbek forces of Shaybani Khan in Khorasan.

    • Date unknown

  • The Grand Prince of Moscow Vasili III conquers Pskov
  • Peter Henlein builds the first pocket watch.
  • Sir Thomas More becomes undersheriff of the City of London.
  • Paolo Cortese publishes De Cardinalatu, a manual for cardinals, including advice on palatial architecture – which inspires Thomas Wolsey in his construction work at Hampton Court Palace.
  • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa moves to Italy.
  • Sunflowers are brought to Europe.

    • Births

  • February 24 – Costanzo II Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1512)
  • March 25 – Guillaume Postel, French linguist (d. 1581)
  • March 30 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566)
  • April 2 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1550)
  • June 6 – Giovanni Battista Cicala, Italian cardinal (d. 1570)
  • July 22 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
  • August 11 – Margaret Paleologa, Marchioness of Montferrat in her own right (1531–1540) (d. 1566)
  • August 24 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (1525–1540) (d. 1558)
  • October 6
  • Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (d. 1555)
  • John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
  • October 25 – Renée of France, French princess (d. 1574)
  • October 28 – Francis Borgia, Spanish General of the Jesuits (d. 1572)
  • December 28 – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (d. 1579)
  • date unknown
  • Jan Matsys, Flemish painter (d. 1575)
  • Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (d. 1547)
  • Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian founder of the Unitarian Church (d. 1579)
  • Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1577)
  • Solomon Luria, Polish-born Kabbalist (d. 1574)
  • Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
  • Bernard Palissy, French potter and writer
  • 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, Ottoman businessperson and philanthropist (d. 1569)
  • Beatriz de la Cueva, Governor of Guatemala (d. 1541)
  • Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, 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)
  • Lawrence Sheriff, Elizabethan gentleman and grocer (d. 1567)
  • Claudio Veggio, Italian composer
  • John Knox, Scottish reformer (d. 1572 )

    • Deaths

  • February 28 – Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (b. c. 1460)
  • March 1 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. c. 1450)
  • March 10 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, German preacher (b. 1445)
  • March 12 – Mihnea cel Rău, Prince of Wallachia (b. c.1460)
  • May 17 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)
  • July 10 – Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (b. 1454)
  • July 14 – Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (b. 1509) Heir to the Scottish throne.
  • July 27 – Giovanni Sforza, condottiere (b. 1466)
  • August 17
  • Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. c. 1462)
  • Richard Empson, English statesman
  • September 15 – Saint Catherine of Genoa (b. 1447)
  • September 18 – Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1488)
  • November 11 – Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian writer (b. 1461)
  • December 2 – Muhammad Shaybani, Khan of Bukhara (b. 1451)
  • December 14 – Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
  • December 31 – Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472)
  • date unknown
  • Agüeybaná, Taino chief
  • Ambrogio Calepino, Italian lexicographer (b. 1450)
  • Giorgione, Italian painter (b. c. 1477)
  • Florian Zamoyski, Polish noble
  • Mandukhai Khatun, Mongolian queen

    • References

    1510 Wikipedia
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