1519

Year 1519 (MDXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1519th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 519th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 16th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1510s decade.

Events

January–June

• Ulrich Zwingli preaches for the first time, as people's priest of the Great Minister in Zürich
  .
• March 4 – Hernán Cortés and his conquistadores land in Mexico.
• Veracruz.^[1]
• June 28 – Charles I of Spain becomes Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (rules until 1556).

July–December

• July 4 – Martin Luther joins the debate regarding papal authority, against Johann Eck at Leipzig.
• July 10 – The Prince of Ning rebellion begins, after Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
• August 15 – Panama City is founded.
• breech-loading Frankish culverin
  .
• September 20 – Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain with a fleet of five ships, to sail westbound to the Spice Islands.
• Tlaxcalans, enter Cholula
  .
• Aztec ruler Moctezuma
  .

• The first civil revolt in Anatolia takes place, led by Alevi preacher Celâl.
• The Spanish invade Barbados.
• Spanish conquistador and founder of Panama City, Gaspar de Espinosa, sails up the Pacific coast from Panama to Nicaragua, landing at the Gulf of Nicoya.^[2]
• Havana moves from the southern to the northern part of Cuba.
• 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 (the first widely documented epidemic in the New World).^[3]
• Central Mexico Amerindians' population reaches 25.3 million.
• The
  Mexican Indian Wars
  begin.
• Cacao comes to Europe.
• St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn is completed in Estonia.
• The first recorded fatal accident involving a gun in England is recorded at Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Births

• January 1 – Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas, Spanish colonial administrator (d. 1593)
• January 18 – Isabella Jagiellon, queen consort of Hungary (d. 1559)
• 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)
• February 19 – Froben Christoph of Zimmern, author of the Zimmern Chronicle (d. 1566)
• March 4
  • Hindal Mirza, Mughal Emperor (d. 1551)
  • Adrian Stokes, English politician (d. 1586)
• March 17 – Thoinot Arbeau, French priest and author (d. 1595)
• Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman (d. 1580
  )
• March 31 – King Henry II of France (d. 1559)^[4]
• April 13 – Catherine de' Medici, Italian noblewoman, queen consort of Henry II of France and regent of France (d. 1589)^[5]
• May 27 – Girolamo Mei, Italian humanist historian (d. 1594)
• June 6 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (d. 1603)
• Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574
  )
• Henry VIII of England (d. 1536
  )
• June 23 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch physician, linguist and humanist (d. 1572)
• June 24 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)
• July 20 – Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)^[6]
• September 23 – Francis, Count of Enghien, French military leader (d. 1546)
• October 14 – Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Princess of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and by marriage Electress Palatine (d. 1567)
• November 9 – Ogasawara Nagatoki, Japanese daimyō (d. 1583)
• November 22 – Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (d. 1585)
• date unknown
  • Janet Beaton, Scottish noblewoman (d. 1569)
  • Nicholas Grimald, English poet (d. 1562)
  • Edwin Sandys, English archbishop (d. 1588)
  • Barbara Thenn, Austrian merchant and Münzmeister (d. 1579)
  • Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese warlord (d. 1560)
  • Paula Vicente, Portuguese artist, musician and writer (d. 1576)
  • Stanisław Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1572)
• probable
  • Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier (d. 1579)
  • Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1583)
• possible
  • Henry VIII of England (born between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542
    )

• January 12
  • Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)^[7]
  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)^[8]
• February 6 – Lorenz von Bibra, Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Würzburg (b. 1459)
• Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (b. 1466
  )
• Henry, Count of Württemberg-Montbéliard (1473–1482) (b. 1448
  )
• April 18 – Sibylle of Bavaria, Electress Palatine consort (b. 1489)
• May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and artist (b. 1452)^[9]
• May 4 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)^[10]
• May 13 – Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (b. 1475)
• June 2 – Philippe de Luxembourg, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1445)
• June 24 – Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480)^[11]
• July 13 – Zhu Youyuan, Ming dynasty politician (b. 1476)
• July 27 – Zanobi Acciaioli, librarian of the Vatican (b. 1461)
• August 11 – Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465)^[12]
• August 23 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. c. 1465)
• September – John Colet, English churchman and educator (b. 1467)
• date unknown
  • William Grocyn, English scholar (b. 1446)^[13]
  • Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (b. 1494)

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