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

1510 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1510 MDX
Ab urbe condita	2263
Armenian calendar	959 Ô¹ÕŽ Õ‹Ô¾Ô¹
Assyrian calendar	6260
Bengali calendar	917
Berber calendar	2460
English Regnal year	1 Hen. 8 â€“ 2 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2054
Burmese calendar	872
Byzantine calendar	7018–7019
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4206 or 4146     â€” to â€” 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4207 or 4147
Coptic calendar	1226–1227
Discordian calendar	2676
Ethiopian calendar	1502–1503
Hebrew calendar	5270–5271
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1566–1567
- Shaka Samvat	1432–1433
- Kali Yuga	4611–4612
Holocene calendar	11510
Igbo calendar	510–511
Iranian calendar	888–889
Islamic calendar	915–916
Japanese calendar	Eishō 7 (永正７年)
Julian calendar	1510 MDX
Korean calendar	3843
Minguo calendar	402 before ROC 民前402年
Thai solar calendar	2052–2053

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

Events

January–June

• January – Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter.
• January 23 – An 18-year-old Henry VIII of England jousts anonymously at Richmond, Surrey and draws applause before revealing himself.

Portuguese Armada retreat after monsoon conditions and a counterattack by the forces of Yusuf Adil Shah, ruler of the Bijapur Sultanate.

• February 27 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Goa.
• May 12 – The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan, Prince of Anhua, kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor in China.
• May 30 – Rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated and captured by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.

July–December

• July – The Holy League, formed to defend the Italian States, attacks French-occupied Genoa.
• December 2 – Battle of Marv: Shah Ismail I defeats the Uzbek forces of Shaybani Khan in Khorasan.

Date unknown

• The Grand Prince of Moscow Vasili III conquers Pskov
• Peter Henlein builds the first pocket watch.
• 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.
• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa moves to Italy.
• Sunflowers are brought to Europe.

Births

• February 24 – Costanzo II Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1512)
• March 25 – Guillaume Postel, French linguist (d. 1581)
• March 30 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566)
• April 2 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1550)
• June 6 – Giovanni Battista Cicala, Italian cardinal (d. 1570)
• July 22 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
• August 11 – Margaret Paleologa, Marchioness of Montferrat in her own right (1531–1540) (d. 1566)
• August 24 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (1525–1540) (d. 1558)
• October 6
  • Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (d. 1555)
  • John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
• October 25 – Renée of France, French princess (d. 1574)
• October 28 – Francis Borgia, Spanish General of the Jesuits (d. 1572)
• December 28 – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (d. 1579)
• 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 )

Deaths

• 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 Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (b. 1509) Heir to the Scottish throne.
• July 27 – Giovanni Sforza, condottiere (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 HasiÅ¡tejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian writer (b. 1461)
• December 2 – Muhammad Shaybani, Khan of Bukhara (b. 1451)
• 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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