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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s 1490s 1500s – 1510s – 1520s 1530s 1540s
Years:	1516 1517 1518 – 1519 – 1520 1521 1522

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Year 1519 (MDXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January 1 – Ulrich Zwingli preaches for the first time as people's priest of the Great Minister in Zurich
March 4 – Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico
April 21 – Hernán Cortés lands in Veracruz, Veracruz
June 28 – Charles I of Spain becomes Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (rules until 1556).

July 4 – Martin Luther joins the debate regarding papal authority against John Eck at Leipzig.
August 15 – Panama City is founded.
September 20 – Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe to circumnavigate the world.
October 12 – Hernán Cortés and his men, accompanied by 3,000 Tlaxcalans, entered Cholula.
November 8 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlan and the court of Aztec ruler Moctezuma.

Erasmus publishes his Colloquia.
Martin Luther questions the infallibility of papal decrees.
The artistic form appears in Georgia and spreads.
The Spanish find Barbados.
The first civil revolt in Anatolia takes place, led by Alevi preacher Celâl.
Cacao comes to Europe.
Havana moves from the southern to the northern part of Cuba.
The St. Olav Church is completed in Tallinn, Estonia.
According to Wang Yangming (1472–1529), the Ming Dynasty philosopher and governor of Jiangxi, China, he intends to use fo–lang–ji cannons in suppressing the rebellion of Prince Zhu Chenhao in this year. This is most likely the earliest reference in China to the breech-loading Frankish culverin.
A large pandemic spreads from the Greater Antilles into Central America, and perhaps as far as Peru in South America. This widespread epidemic kills off much of the indigenous populations in these areas. According to historian Alfred W. Crosby Jr. in his The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, this outbreak is the first widely documented epidemic in the New World.
Central Mexico Amerindians' population – 25.3 million.
Postclassic period ends in Mesoamerica.
The first recorded fatal accident involving a gun in England was recorded at Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire.

February 5 – René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (d. 1544)
February 15 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (d. 1574)
February 16 – Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (d. 1572)
February 17 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
March 31 – King Henry II of France (d. 1559)
April 13 – Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
May 27 – Girolamo Mei, Italian humanist historian (d. 1594)
June 6 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (d. 1603)
June 12 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
June 24 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)
July 22 – Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
date unknown
- Thoinot Arbeau, French priest and author (d. 1596)
- Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch physician, linguist, and humanist (d. 1572)
- Nicholas Grimald, English poet (d. 1562)
- Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1583)
- Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese military commander (d. 1563)
- Edwin Sandys, English prelate (d. 1588)
- Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese warlord
- Stanisław Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1572)
probable
- Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier (d. 1579)
possible
- Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born in between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)

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