1510

All you want to know about 1510

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s
Years:	1507 1508 1509 - 1510 - 1511 1512 1513

January - Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter.
January 23 - Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals himself.
February 27 - Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Goa.

Pskov is conquered by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy.
The Holy League is formed to defend the Italian States.
Peter Henlein builds the first pocketwatch.
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 inspired Thomas Wolsey in his construction work at Hampton Court Palace.
Construction of the Mary Rose is completed.

March 25 - Guillaume Postel, linguist (d. 1581)
March 30 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566)
April 2 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1550)
July 22 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
October 6
- Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (d. 1555)
- John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
October 28 - Francis Borgia, General of the Jesuits (d. 1572)
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)
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

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