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

Events

• 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.
• Conquest of Pskov by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy.
• Formation of the Holy League to defend the Italian States.
• Peter Henlein builds the first pocketwatch.
• End of the War of the League of Cambrai (started 1508)
• Start of the War of the Holy League (ended 1513)

Births

• March 30 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (died 1566)
• April 2 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (died 1550)
• July 22 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (died 1537)
• October 6 – Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed 1555)
• November 6 – John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
• Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (died 1557)
• Francis Borgia, General of the Jesuits (died 1572)
• Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (died 1547)
• Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (died 1579)
• Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (died 1586)
• Claude Goudimel, French composer and music theorist (died 1572)
• Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (died 1577)
• Aloysius Lilius, Italian inventor of the Gregorian calendar (died 1576)
• Solomon Luria, Polish-born Kabbalist (died 1574)
• Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (died 1586)
• Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (died 1551)
• Bernard de Palissy, French potter and writer
• Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (died 1590)
• Guillaume Postel, linguist (died 1581)
• Renee of France, daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany (died 1575)
• Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist and writer
• Lawrence Sheriff, Elizabethan gentleman and grocer (died 1567)
• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (died 1554)
• Claudio Veggio, Italian composer
• Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (died 1571)

Deaths

• February 28 – Juan de la Cosa, Spanish mapmaker and explorer (born c. 1460)
• March 1 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (born c. 1450)
• March 10 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, German preacher (born 1445)
• May 17 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (born 1445)
• August 17 – Edmund Dudley, English statesman
• December 14 – Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
• December 31 – Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1472)
• Agueybana, Taino chief
• Ambrogio Calepino, Italian lexicographer (born 1450)
• Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (born 1454)
• Richard Empson, English statesman
• Giorgione, Italian painter (born c. 1477)
• Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian writer (born 1461)
• Florian Zamoyski, Polish nobleman