1519
*
March 4 -
Hernán Cortés lands in
Mexico.
*
June 28 - Charles I of
Spain becomes Emperor of
Holy Roman Empire as
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until
1556).
*
July 4 -
Martin Luther joins the debate regarding papal authority against
John Eck at Leipzig.
*
September 20 -
Ferdinand Magellan leaves
Europe to circumnavigate the world.
*
November 8 -
Hernán Cortés enters
Tenochtitlán and
Aztec ruler
Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning
god.
*
Erasmus publishes his Colloquia.
*
Martin Luther questions the infallibility of papal decrees.
*
Mannerism, artistic form appears in
Italy and spreads.
* Spanish find
Barbados.
*
Cacao comes to Europe.
*
Panama founded.
*
Havana moved from the
Southern to
Northern part of
Cuba.
*
February 5 -
René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (d.
1544)
*
February 16 -
Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (died
1572)
*
February 17 -
Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d.
1563)
*
March 31 - King
Henry II of France (died
1559)
*
April 13 -
Catherine de Medici, queen of
Henry II of France (died
1589)
*
May 27 -
Girolamo Mei, Italian humanist historian (died
1594)
*
June 6 -
Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (died
1603)
*
June 12 -
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died
1574)
*
June 24 -
Theodore Beza, French theologian (died
1605)
*
July 22 -
Pope Innocent IX (died
1591)
*
Thoinot Arbeau, French priest and author (died
1596)
*
Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier (died
1579)
*
Nicholas Grimald, English poet (died
1562)
*
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida
*
Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese military commander (died
1563)
*
Edwin Sandys, English prelate (died
1588)
*
Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese warlord
*
Stanislaw Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died
1572)
*
January 12 -
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born
1459)
*
January 21 -
Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer
*
May 2 -
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (born
1452)
*
May 4 -
Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b.
1492)
*
June 24 -
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (born
1480)
*
August 11 -
Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (born
1465)
*
August 23 -
Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
*
September 10 -
John Colet, English churchman and educator
*
Francesco II of Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (born
1466)
*
William Grocyn, English scholar (born
1446)
*
Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (born
1494)
*
Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (born
1492)
*
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (born
1494)
