1509

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s 1480s 1490s – 1500s – 1510s 1520s 1530s
Years:	1506 1507 1508 – 1509 – 1510 1511 1512

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Year 1509 (MDIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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February 2 – Battle of Diu: The Portuguese defeat a coalition of Indians, Muslims and Italians.
April 21 – Henry VIII becomes King of England (for 38 years) on the death of his father, Henry VII.
April 27 – Pope Julius II places Venice under interdict and excommunication for refusing to cede part of Romagna to papal control.
May 14 – Battle of Agnadello: French forces defeat the Venetians.
June 11
- Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
- Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione, concerning the golden ratio, is published in Venice, with illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci.
June 19 – Brasenose College, University of Oxford, is founded by a lawyer, Sir Richard Sutton, of Prestbury, Cheshire, and the Bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth.
June 24 – King Henry VIII of England and Queen Consort Catherine of Aragon are crowned.

September 10 – Istanbul earthquake destroys 109 mosques and kills an estimated 10,000 people.
September 11 – Portuguese fidalgo Diogo Lopes de Sequeira becomes the first European to reach Malacca, having crossed the Gulf of Bengal.

Erasmus writes his most famous work, In Praise of Folly.
The Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy is founded.
Royal Grammar School, Guildford, is founded by Robert Beckingham.
St Paul's School is founded by John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, is founded as a grammar school for boys.
Afonso de Albuquerque becomes the governor of the portuguese settlements in India.
Earliest known pocket watch made at Nuremberg, Germany by Peter Henlein.

January – Adam Kraft, sculptor and architect
March 14 – Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio, Italian cardinal
April 21 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
May 10 – Caterina Sforza, countess of Forli (b. 1463)
June 29 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
July – João da Nova, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1460)
July 11 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1469)
July 16 – Mikalojus Radvila the Old, Lithuanian nobleman (b. c. 1450)
October 25 – João II of Portugal, King of Portugal (b. 1455)
date unknown
- Hans Seyffer, sculptor and woodcarver (b. c. 1460)
- Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (b. 1427)
- Viranarasimha Raya, ruler of the Vijayanagar empire

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