1510

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

Events

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 his identity.
* February 27–November 25 – Portuguese conquest of Goa: Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Goa.
* March 1 – Battle of Salt River: Indigenous ǃUriǁʼaekua decisively defeat sailors of the Portuguese Empire in South Africa.
* 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. The 1510 influenza pandemic reaches Sicily, 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.
* October 16 – Mingyi Nyo declares independence from the Ava Kingdom in upper Burma, by establishing the Toungoo dynasty.
* December 2 – Battle of Marv: 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 Pskov.
* 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.
* The Mary Rose ship is laid out. The next year the ship is built and complete in 1512. By the time the battle sank the ship in England.

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)
* June 6 – Giovanni Battista Cicala, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1570)
* June 22 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
* August 11 – Margaret Paleologa, Sovereign Marchioness of Montferrat (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)
** 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, 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 1 – Sidonie of Poděbrady, Bohemian princess, duchess consort of Saxony (b. 1449)
* 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)
*May 25 – Cardinal Georges d'Ambroise, aka Monseigneur le Ledat. Adviser to King Louis XII of France. (b. 1460)
* July 10 – Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (b. 1454)
* July 14 – Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the Scottish throne (b. 1509)
* July 27 – Giovanni 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)
* 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, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1472)
* ''date unknown''
** Agüeybaná, Taino chief
** Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, Italian regent (b. 1478)
** Ambrogio Calepino, Italian lexicographer (b. 1450)
** Giorgione, Italian painter (b. c. 1477)
** Mandukhai Khatun, Mongolian queen

References

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