1511

This article is about the year 1511. For the number, see 1511 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1508 1509 1510 – 1511 – 1512 1513 1514

1511 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1511 MDXI
Ab urbe condita	2264
Armenian calendar	960 ԹՎ ՋԿ
Assyrian calendar	6261
Bengali calendar	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) 4207 or 4147     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4208 or 4148
Coptic calendar	1227–1228
Discordian calendar	2677
Ethiopian calendar	1503–1504
Hebrew calendar	5271–5272
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1567–1568
- Shaka Samvat	1433–1434
- Kali Yuga	4612–4613
Holocene calendar	11511
Igbo calendar	511–512
Iranian calendar	889–890
Islamic calendar	916–917
Japanese calendar	Eishō 8 (永正８年)
Julian calendar	1511 MDXI
Korean calendar	3844
Minguo calendar	401 before ROC 民前401年
Thai solar calendar	2053–2054

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

Events

January–June

• April 9
  • St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.
  • The Şahkulu Rebellion breaks out in Anatolia.

July–December

• July – Henry VIII of England's flagship, the Mary Rose, is launched at Portsmouth.
• August 15 – 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. 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.
• October 12 – James IV of Scotland's great ship, the Michael, is launched at Newhaven, Edinburgh.
• November – The Treaty of Westminster creates an alliance between Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon against France.
• November 20 – Sinking of the vessel Frol de la Mar transporting Afonso de Albuquerque and the valuable treasure of the conquest of Malacca en route to Goa.

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.
• 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.
• Taíno, an indigenous uprising occurs 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, as Moriae encomium / Laus stultitiae.

Births

• January 1 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
• April 5 – John III, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German noble (d. 1574)
• June 4 – Honorat II of Savoy, French Navy admiral (d. 1580)
• June 6 – Jakob Schegk, German physician (d. 1587)
• June 18 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Florentine architect and sculptor (d. 1592)
• July 9 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, consort of Christian III from 1525 and Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1571)
• July 30 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (d. 1574)
• August 24 – Jean Bauhin, French physician (d. 1582)
• September 29 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian (d. 1553)
• October 22 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
• November 8 – Paul Eber, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1569)
• November 15 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536)
• date unknown
  • Amato Lusitano, Portuguese Jewish physician (d. 1568)
  • Kimotsuki Kanetsugu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1566)
  • Luís de Velasco, Spanish viceroy of New Spain (d. 1564)
  • Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (d. 1576)
  • Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Jesuits (d. 1590)
  • Pierre Viret, Swiss reformed theologian (d. 1571)
  • Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (d. 1575)

Deaths

• January 9 – Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Greek classical scholar (b. 1424)
• Early 1511, Yusuf Adil Shah
• February 11 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
• July 2 – Şahkulu, leader of the Şahkulu Rebellion
• August 2 – Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader (b. c. 1466)
• September 6 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
• October 18 Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447)
• date unknown
  • Diego de Nicuesa, Spanish conquistador and explorer
  • Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish composer and music theorist (b. c. 1435)
  • Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (b. 1482)
• probable – Antoine de Févin, French composer (b. c. 1470)