1509

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April 21: Henry VIII.

Year 1509 (MDIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• February 2 – Battle of Diu: The Portuguese defeat a coalition of Indians, Muslims and Italians.
• April 21 – Henry VIII becomes King of England (for 38 years) on the death of his father, Henry VII.
• April 27 – Pope Julius II places Venice under interdict and excommunication for refusing to cede part of Romagna to papal control.
• May 14 – Battle of Agnadello: French forces defeat the Venetians.
• June 11
  • Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
  • Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione, concerning the golden ratio, is published in Venice, with illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci.
• June 19 – Brasenose College, University of Oxford, is founded by a lawyer, Sir Richard Sutton, of Prestbury, Cheshire, and the Bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth.
• June 24 – King Henry VIII of England and Queen Consort Catherine of Aragon are crowned.

July–December

• September 10 – Istanbul earthquake destroys 109 mosques and kills an estimated 10,000 people.
• September 11 – Portuguese fidalgo Diogo Lopes de Sequeira becomes the first European to reach Malacca, having crossed the Gulf of Bengal.

Date unknown

• Erasmus writes his most famous work, In Praise of Folly.
• The Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy is founded.
• Royal Grammar School, Guildford, is founded by Robert Beckingham.
• St Paul's School is founded by John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
• Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, is founded as a grammar school for boys.
• Afonso de Albuquerque becomes the governor of the portuguese settlements in India.
• Earliest known pocket watch made at Nuremberg, Germany by Peter Henlein.

Births

• January 25 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
• July 10 – John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
• August 3 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (d. 1546)
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Bacon, English politician (d. 1579)
  • John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer (d. 1591)
  • Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (d. 1545)
  • Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, lawyer (d. 1579)
  • Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and natural scientist (d. 1588)
  • Kamran Mirza, Mughal prince (d. 1557)
• probable – John of Leiden, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1536)

Deaths

• January – Adam Kraft, sculptor and architect
• March 14 – Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio, Italian cardinal
• April 21 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
• May 10 – Caterina Sforza, countess of Forli (b. 1463)
• June 29 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
• July – João da Nova, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1460)
• July 11 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1469)
• July 16 – Mikalojus Radvila the Old, Lithuanian nobleman (b. c. 1450)
• October 25 – João II of Portugal, King of Portugal (b. 1455)
• date unknown
  • Hans Seyffer, sculptor and woodcarver (b. c. 1460)
  • Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (b. 1427)
  • Viranarasimha Raya, ruler of the Vijayanagar empire

References