1511

This article is about the year 1511.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1508 1509 1510 – 1511 – 1512 1513 1514

1511 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1511 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1511 MDXI
Ab urbe condita	2264
Armenian calendar	960 ԹՎ ՋԿ
Assyrian calendar	6261
Bahá'í calendar	-333–-332
Bengali calendar	918
Berber calendar	2461
English Regnal year	2 Hen. 8 – 3 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2055
Burmese calendar	873
Byzantine calendar	7019–7020
Chinese calendar	庚午年十二月初二日 (4147/4207-12-2) — to — 辛未年十二月十二日 (4148/4208-12-12)
Coptic calendar	1227–1228
Ethiopian calendar	1503–1504
Hebrew calendar	5271–5272
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1567–1568
- Shaka Samvat	1433–1434
- Kali Yuga	4612–4613
Holocene calendar	11511
Iranian calendar	889–890
Islamic calendar	916–917
Japanese calendar	Eishō 8 (永正8年)
Korean calendar	3844
Minguo calendar	401 before ROC 民前401年
Thai solar calendar	2054

Year 1511 (MDXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• April 9 – St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.

July–December

• July – Henry VIII of England's flagship, the Mary Rose, is launched at Portsmouth.
• August 24 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca. The Sultanate then establishes rule from Johor, starting decades of skirmishes against the Portuguese to regain the fallen city. While taking the city, the Portuguese slaughter a large community of Chinese merchants living there (mentioned by Zhang Xie writing a century later). Malacca is the first city in Southeast Asia to be taken by a Western nation, gaining home rule only in 1957 when it becomes part of Malaysia.
• November – The Treaty of Westminster creates an alliance between Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon against France.
• November 20 – Sinking of the vessel Frol de la mar transporting Afonso de Albuquerque and the valuable treasure of the conquest of Malacca en route to Goa.

Date unknown

• Diego Velázquez and Hernán Cortés conquer Cuba; Velázquez is appointed Governor.
• Duarte Barbosa arrives in India for the second time. He works as clerk in the factory of Cananor and as the liaison with the Indian rajah.
• Ferdinand II of Aragon observes that "one black can do the work of four Indians".
• Juan de Agramonte, a sailor from Spain, is thought possibly to have travelled to Newfoundland.
• Taíno, an indigenous uprising occurs in southwestern Puerto Rico near Guánica.
• The first black slaves arrive in Colombia.
• The Spanish conquest of Yucatán begins.
• Erasmus publishes his most famous work, The Praise of Folly, as Moriae encomium / Laus stultitiae.
• Şahkulu Rebellion

Births

• January 1 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
• June 18 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Florentine architect and sculptor (d. 1592)
• July 9 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, consort of Christian III from 1525 and Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1571)
• July 30 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (d. 1574)
• September 29 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian (d. 1553)
• October 22 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
• November 15 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536)
• date unknown
  • Amato Lusitano, Portuguese Jewish physician (d. 1568)
  • Kimotsuki Kanetsugu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1566)
  • Luis de Velasco, Spanish viceroy of New Spain (d. 1564)
  • Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (d. 1576)
  • Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Jesuits (d. 1590)
  • Pierre Viret, Swiss reformed theologian (d. 1571)

Deaths

• February 11 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
• August 2 – Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader (b. c. 1466)
• September 6 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
• date unknown
  • Demetrius Chalcondyles, Greek classical scholar (b. 1424)
  • Diego de Nicuesa, Spanish conquistador and explorer
  • Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish composer and music theorist (b. c. 1435)
  • Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447)
  • Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (b. 1482)
• probable – Antoine de Févin, French composer (b. c. 1470)