1510

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s 1490s 1500s – 1510s – 1520s 1530s 1540s
Years:	1507 1508 1509 – 1510 – 1511 1512 1513

This article is about the year 1510. For the number see 1510 (number).

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

Events [edit]

January – Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter.
January 23 – Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals himself.
February 27 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Goa.
July – The Holy League , formed to defend the Italian States, attacks French-occupied Genoa.

The Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy conquers Pskov
Peter Henlein builds the first pocketwatch.
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.
Henry Cornelius Agrippa moves to Italy.

March 25 – Guillaume Postel, linguist (d. 1581)
March 30 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566)
April 2 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1550)
July 22 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
October 6
- Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (d. 1555)
- John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
October 28 – Francis Borgia, General of the Jesuits (d. 1572)
date unknown
- 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)
probable
- 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 )

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, Duke of Rothesay (b. 1509) Heir to the Scottish throne.
July 27 – Giovanni Sforza, condottiero (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 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 nobleman

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