1511 - Wikiwand

Year 1511 (MDXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Quick Facts

1511 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1511 MDXI
Ab urbe condita	2264
Armenian calendar	960 ԹՎ ՋԿ
Assyrian calendar	6261
Balinese saka calendar	1432–1433
Bengali calendar	917–918
Berber calendar	2461
English Regnal year	2 Hen. 8 – 3 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2055
Burmese calendar	873
Byzantine calendar	7019–7020
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4208 or 4001 — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4209 or 4002
Coptic calendar	1227–1228
Discordian calendar	2677
Ethiopian calendar	1503–1504
Hebrew calendar	5271–5272
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1567–1568
- Shaka Samvat	1432–1433
- Kali Yuga	4611–4612
Holocene calendar	11511
Igbo calendar	511–512
Iranian calendar	889–890
Islamic calendar	916–917
Japanese calendar	Eishō 8 (永正８年)
Javanese calendar	1428–1429
Julian calendar	1511 MDXI
Korean calendar	3844
Minguo calendar	401 before ROC 民前401年
Nanakshahi calendar	43
Thai solar calendar	2053–2054
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Horse) 1637 or 1256 or 484 — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 1638 or 1257 or 485

Remove ads

Events

January–March

January 19 – The Siege of Mirandola by the Papal States, with help from the Duchy of Urbino and Spanish and Venetian troops, ends with the capture of Mirandola after 18 days of fighting. The Pope personally leads the troops and, after the outnumbered defenders surrender, works at preventing his troops from pillaging the city or harming the residents.^[1]
February 12 – King Henry VIII of England opens the two-day Westminster Tournament to celebrate the birth (on January 1) of his son Prince Henry. Sadly, the infant prince dies on February 22, nine days after the tournament's end.^[2] The festivities are later memorialized in the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll, a series of 36 separately painted pictures stitched together to form a roll almost 60 feet (18 m) long and 143⁄4 inches (37.5 cm) wide.
February 22 – (9th waning of Tabaung 872 ME In what is now Myanmar, King Shwenankyawshin Narapati II of Ava dedicates his "exquisite golden palace".^[3]
February 27 – In Italy, on "Fat Thursday", a Christian celebration marking the last days of feasting before the period of fasting during the Roman Catholic Lent, discontented citizens of Friuli stage a revolt against their Venetian occupiers and attack the city of Udine and invade the palaces of several members of nobility, murdering the wealthy families and plundering the palace contents. Special troops arrive from Gradisca d'Isonzo on March 1 and suppress the rebellion.^[4]
March 11 – On the island of Puerto Rico, Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León leads an incursion at Yahuecas against the local Taino warriors, commanded by Chief Urayoán.^[5]
March 26 – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Slovenia and Italy and kills more than 10,000 people, striking with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme).^[6] The epicenter is around the town of Idrija in present-day Slovenia, although some place it some 15-20 kilometers to the west, between Gemona and Pulfero in Friulian Slovenia. The earthquake affects a large territory between Carinthia, Friuli, present-day Slovenia and Croatia.

April–June

April 9
- St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.^[7]
- The Şahkulu Rebellion breaks out in Anatolia.
May 16 – Five Roman Catholic cardinals, including Federico di Sanseverino, sign a document calling upon Pope Julius II to convene a council in Pisa to discuss reform of the Roman Catholic Church, to take place on September 1. After the Pope threatens him with excommunication, Sanseverino elects not to attend.^[8]
May 23 – French troops capture the Italian city of Bologna after a two-day battle.^[9]^[10]
June 21 – in Spain, Queen Queen Joanna of Castile creates the Consulate of the Sea for the port of Bilbao.^[11]

July–September

July 2 – The Şahkulu rebellion, which had started in Anatolia by Sakhulu Baba, against the Ottoman Empire on April 9, is suppressed in southeastern Turkey by the Ottoman Grand Vizier, Hadım Ali Pasha and Prince Şehzade Ahmed, son of the Sultan Bayezid II. Sakhulu is subsequently beheaded.
July 11 – Pope Julius II summons Catholic clerics to meet at the Fifth Council of the Lateran, directing them to meet on April 19.^[12]
July 25 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal, Governor of Portuguese India, begins an assault on the strategic city of Malacca (now part of Malaysia) and captures it by August 15.
July 29 – Henry VIII of England's flagship, the Mary Rose, is launched from Portsmouth.^[13]
August 14 – In Rome, the completed first half of Michelangelo's painting of Biblical scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling is unveiled for a select group of patrons and church officials.^[14] The viewing is open to the public the next day.
August 15 – (21 Jumada I 917 AH) Capture of Malacca: Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca, giving Portugal control over the Strait of Malacca, through which all sea-going trade between China and India is concentrated. The Sultanate then establishes rule from Johor, starting decades of skirmishes against the Portuguese to regain the fallen city. While taking the city, the Portuguese slaughter a large community of Chinese merchants living there.^[15] Malacca is the first city in Southeast Asia to be taken by a Western nation, gaining home rule only in 1957, when it becomes part of Malaysia.
September 13 – In Japan, Tokudaiji Saneatsu retires from his position as Chancellor of the Realm (Daijō-daijin) after two years of leading the Council of State.
September 27. Imperial troops capture Gradisca d'Isonzo from the Venetians, also operating in other parts of Friuli and northern Italy, together with their French allies.

October–December

October 4 – The Holy League is formed, against French dominance in Italy. It is an alliance between the Papal States, the Republic of Venice, and the Kingdom of Aragon, with several other powers joining later (the Swiss Confederation, the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of England). On the next day in Rome, the creation of the Holy League is publicly proclaimed by the Pope Julius II.^[16]
October 12 – James IV of Scotland's great ship, the Michael, is launched at Newhaven, Edinburgh; she is the largest ship afloat at this date.^[17]
November 17 – The Treaty of Westminster creates an alliance between Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon against France.^[18] Mallett and Shaw, The Italian Wars, 103; Hutchinson, Young Henry, 159.
November 20 – The vessel Frol de la Mar, transporting Afonso de Albuquerque and the valuable treasure of the conquest of Malacca, sinks en route to Goa.
November 23 – In India, Mahmud Shah Begada, Sultan of Gujarat since 1458, dies at the age of 66 after a reign of more than 50 years. He is succeeded by his eldest son, Prince Shams-ud-Din Muzaffar, who takes the name Muzaffar Shah II.^[19]
December 21 – In an impassioned sermon on the fourth Sunday of Advent at Santo Domingo, Dominican friar Antonio de Montesinos openly denounces the Spanish conquistadors' cruelty and abuse of the Taino people practice of Encomienda (forcible enslavement of non-Christian peoples) on the island of Hispanola.^[20] and adds that neither he nor any of his missionaries will allow slaveholders to partake in confession.^[21]

Date unknown

Diego Velázquez and Hernán Cortés conquer Cuba; Velázquez is appointed Governor.
Duarte Barbosa arrives in India for the second time. He works as clerk in the factory of Cananor, and as the liaison with the Indian rajah.
After the fall of Malacca, Afonso de Albuquerque sends Duarte Fernandes on a diplomatic mission to Burma and Siam, becoming the first European to visit these countries diplomatically.
Ferdinand II of Aragon observes that "one black can do the work of four Indians".
Juan de Agramonte, a sailor from Spain, is thought possibly to have travelled to Newfoundland.
The indigenous Taíno people revolt against the Spanish in southwestern Puerto Rico near Guánica.
The first black slaves arrive in Colombia.
The Spanish conquest of Yucatán begins.
Erasmus publishes his most famous work, The Praise of Folly (Laus stultitiae).^[22]