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1519

Years: 1516 1517 1518 - 1519 - 1520 1521 1522

Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• 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)
• 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

Births

• April 13 - Catherine de Medici, queen of France
• July 22 - Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
• King Henri II of France (d.1559)
• Thoinot_Arbeau (anagram of Jehan Tabourot), author of Orchesographie

Deaths

• January 12 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
• January 21 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer
• May 2 - Leonardo da Vinci, inventor, painter and widely regarded genius (b. 1452).
• June 24 - Lucrezia Borgia, illegitimate daughter of deceased Pope Alexander VI (b.1480)
• August 11 - Johann Tetzel, Dominican priest.

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