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Year 1519 (MDXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday 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.

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1519 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1519 MDXIX
Ab urbe condita	2272
Armenian calendar	968 ԹՎ ՋԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	6269
Balinese saka calendar	1440–1441
Bengali calendar	925–926
Berber calendar	2469
English Regnal year	10 Hen. 8 – 11 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2063
Burmese calendar	881
Byzantine calendar	7027–7028
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4216 or 4009 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4217 or 4010
Coptic calendar	1235–1236
Discordian calendar	2685
Ethiopian calendar	1511–1512
Hebrew calendar	5279–5280
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1575–1576
- Shaka Samvat	1440–1441
- Kali Yuga	4619–4620
Holocene calendar	11519
Igbo calendar	519–520
Iranian calendar	897–898
Islamic calendar	924–926
Japanese calendar	Eishō 16 (永正１６年)
Javanese calendar	1436–1437
Julian calendar	1519 MDXIX
Korean calendar	3852
Minguo calendar	393 before ROC 民前393年
Nanakshahi calendar	51
Thai solar calendar	2061–2062
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 1645 or 1264 or 492 — to — ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 1646 or 1265 or 493

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Events

January 1 – Ulrich Zwingli preaches for the first time, as people's priest of the Great Minister in Zurich.
January 12 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, dies at the age of 59 after a reign of slightly less than 11 years.^[1] An imperial election by the leaders of the various member states of the Empire is scheduled for June 28.
February 10 – The Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and his conquistadores depart from Cuba toward the island of Cozumel in Mexico to begin a mission of conquest.
February 18 – Because of the large population of Jews included converts to Christianity ("New Christians") in the colony of Portuguese India at Goa, King Manuel I of Portugal announces that there will be no further appointment of New Christians to government offices, but affirms that those already in office are not to be dismissed^[2]
March 4 – Hernán Cortés and his conquistadores land in Mexico.^[3]

April 21 (Maundy Thursday) – Hernán Cortés reaches San Juan de Ulúa, and sets foot the next day (Good Friday) on the beach of modern-day Veracruz.^[4]
May 4 – Giulio de' Medici, who will later become Pope Clement VII becomes the Duke of the Florentine Republic upon the death of his father, Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino.^[5]
June 27 – The Leipzig Debate begins at the Pleissenburg lecture hall in the German city of Leipzig in Saxony, as Martin Luther defends his ideas on the Protestant Reformation against challenges by Johann Eck, the German leader of the anti-Reformation movement.^[6] While there, he is challenged to a theological debate by Johann Eck, the German leader of the anti-Reformation movement. The debate lasts until July 15 and gains new followers to Luther's theology.
June 28 – King Carlos I of Spain is elected as the new Holy Roman Emperor and takes the regnal name of Charles V. He will reign until 1556).

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.
July 26 – King Charles of Spain issues a royal order prohibiting navigator Rui Faleiro from participating in the Magellan expedition, after Portugal's ambassador to Spain reports that Faleiro is suffering from a nervous breakdown.^[7]
August 10 – The Magellan expedition departs from Seville in Spain.^[8]
August 15 – Panama City is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila.^[9]
August 20 – Ming Dynasty Chinese philosopher and general Wang Yangming, governor of Jiangxi, defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion. Wang has expressed the intention of using fo–lang–ji cannons in suppressing the rebellion, probably the earliest reference in China to the breech-loading Frankish culverin.
September 20 – Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain with a fleet of five ships and a crew of 270 men, to sail westbound to the Spice Islands.

October 12 – Hernán Cortés and his men, accompanied by 3,000 Tlaxcalans, enter Cholula.
November 8 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire, and appears at the court of Aztec ruler Moctezuma II.^[10]
December 6 – The Magellan expedition reaches the South American coast.^[11]
December 11 – At Toruń, the members of the Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland vote to approve a war against the Teutonic Knights and to assess new taxes to recruit mercenary troops.^[12]

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.^[13]
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).^[14]
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.