1513

This article is about the year 1513.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1510 1511 1512 – 1513 – 1514 1515 1516

1513 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

1513 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1513 MDXIII
Ab urbe condita	2266
Armenian calendar	962 ԹՎ ՋԿԲ
Assyrian calendar	6263
Bahá'í calendar	-331–-330
Bengali calendar	920
Berber calendar	2463
English Regnal year	4 Hen. 8 – 5 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2057
Burmese calendar	875
Byzantine calendar	7021–7022
Chinese calendar	壬申年十一月廿五日 (4149/4209-11-25) — to — 癸酉年十二月初五日 (4150/4210-12-5)
Coptic calendar	1229–1230
Ethiopian calendar	1505–1506
Hebrew calendar	5273–5274
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1569–1570
- Shaka Samvat	1435–1436
- Kali Yuga	4614–4615
Holocene calendar	11513
Iranian calendar	891–892
Islamic calendar	918–919
Japanese calendar	Eishō 10 (永正10年)
Korean calendar	3846
Minguo calendar	399 before ROC 民前399年
Thai solar calendar	2056

Year 1513 (MDXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 20 – Christian II becomes King of Denmark and Norway.
• March 9 – Pope Leo X succeeds Pope Julius II as the 217th pope.
• March 27 – Juan Ponce de Leon becomes the first European definitely known to sight what is now the territory of the United States (specifically Florida), mistaking it for another island.
• April 2 – Juan Ponce de Leon and his expedition become the first Europeans known to visit Florida, landing somewhere on the east coast.
• May – Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares lands on Lintin Island in the Pearl River estuary. This is followed up by Rafael Perestrello, a cousin of Christopher Columbus, who commands an expedition from Portuguese Malacca in 1516 to land on the shores of mainland southern China, in order to trade with Chinese merchants at Guangzhou.
• June 6 – Italian Wars – Battle of Novara: Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.

July–December

• August 16 – Battle of the Spurs (or Battle of Guinegate): English troops under Henry VIII defeat a French army under Marshal La Palice.
• August 22 – Thérouanne is captured by Henry VIII of England.
• September – The dispute between Johann Reuchlin and Johannes Pfefferkorn, relative to the Talmud and other Jewish books, is referred to Pope Leo X.
• September 9 – Battle of Flodden Field: King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by an English army under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. James's son, the Duke of Rothesay, becomes James V, King of Scots.
• September 25 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa, "silent upon a peak in Darién", first sees what will become known as the Pacific Ocean.
• October 7 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
• December – Louis XII makes peace with the Pope and Spain.

Undated

• Niccolò Machiavelli writes The Prince.
• Leo Africanus visits Timbuktu, the second city of Songhai Empire.
• Paracelsus begins stydying at Ferrara University.
• Appenzell becomes a member of Old Swiss Confederacy.

Births

• September 24 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1535)
• October 30 – Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)
• December 23 – Thomas Smith, English scholar and diplomat (d. 1577)
• date unknown
  • Abe Motozane, Japanese general (d. 1587)
  • Michael Baius, Belgian theologian (d. 1589)
  • George Cassander, Flemish theologian (d. 1566)
  • Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (d. 1537)
• probable – Elizabeth Seymour, sister-in-law of Henry VIII of England (d. 1563)

Deaths

• January – Hans Folz, author (b. c. 1437)
• February 20 – King John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1455)
• February 21 – Pope Julius II (b. 1443)
• March 10 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English general (b. 1443)
• April 30 – Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, Duke of Suffolk (b. 1471)
• June 13 – Piero Soderini, Florentine statesman (b. 1450)
• September 9 – King James IV of Scotland, Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, Alexander Stewart (Archbishop of St Andrews), (at the Battle of Flodden Field) (b. 1473)
• October 27 – George Manners, 12th Baron de Ros, English nobleman
• date unknown
  • Robert Fabyan, English chronicler
  • Hua Sui, Chinese inventor and printer (b. 1439)