Explore 78 historical events from 1510–1519.
György Dózsa was a Székely man-at-arms from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, who led a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility during the reign of King Vladislaus I…
György Dózsa, Transylvanian peasant revolt leader (born 1470)
Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, 6th Earl of Suffolk, KG, Duke of Suffolk, was an English nobleman and soldier. The son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and his wife …
Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII
The War of the League of Cambrai, also known by its second stage as the War of the Holy League, was fought from December 1508 to December 1516, as part of the wider Italian Wars of…
War of the League of Cambrai: In the Battle of Novara, Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, fo
The Battle of the Spurs or (Second) Battle of Guinegate took place on 16 August 1513. It formed a part of the War of the League of Cambrai of 1508 to 1516, during the Italian Wars.…
Battle of the Spurs (Battle of Guinegate): King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeat French Forces who…
Louis, Duc de Montpensier was the second Duke of Montpensier, a French Prince of the Blood, military commander and governor. He began his military career during the Italian Wars, a…
Louis, Duke of Montpensier (1561–1582) (died 1582)
Şehzade Ahmed was a Şehzade (prince) of the Ottoman Empire, the eldest surviving son of Sultan Bayezid II. He fought against his younger brother, Selim, in the Ottoman Civil War of…
Şehzade Ahmet, Ottoman prince (born 1465)
The War of the League of Cambrai, also known by its second stage as the War of the Holy League, was fought from December 1508 to December 1516, as part of the wider Italian Wars of…
War of the League of Cambrai: Milanese forces with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara, forcing them to with
The War of the League of Cambrai, also known by its second stage as the War of the Holy League, was fought from December 1508 to December 1516, as part of the wider Italian Wars of…
War of the League of Cambrai: English and Imperial forces defeated French cavalry, forcing them to retreat.
The Spanish conquest of the Iberian part of Navarre was initiated by Ferdinand II of Aragon and completed by his grandson and successor Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in a series of …
The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman, who over his long life assumed a prominent place at the court of all the later Tudor sovereigns.
Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, Chancellor of the University of Oxford (died 1580)
Friedrich Staphylus was a German theologian, at first a Lutheran Protestant and then a Catholic convert.
Friedrich Staphylus, German theologian (died 1564)
Pandolfo Petrucci was the lord of Siena during the Renaissance.
Pandolfo Petrucci, Italian ruler (born 1452)
Bayezid II was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, Bayezid consolidated the Ottoman Empire, thwarted a pro-Safavid rebellion and finally abdicated…
Bayezid II, Ottoman sultan (born 1447)
Alessandro Achillini was an Italian philosopher and physician. He is known for the anatomic studies that he was able to publish, made possible by a 13th-century edict putatively by…
Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (born 1463)
The Battle of Saint-Mathieu took place on 10 August 1512 during the War of the League of Cambrai, near Brest, France, between an English fleet of 25 ships commanded by Sir Edward H…
The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the…
Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese general, admiral, statesman, and conquistador. He served as viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, during which he …
Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.
Bartolomeo Ammannati was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence, Italy. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino and closely imitated t…
Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor, designed the Ponte Santa Trinita (died 1592)
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg was queen consort of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian III of Denmark. She was known to having wielded influence upon the affairs of state…
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (died 1571)
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, cons…
Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (died 1574)
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah al-Maghrawi al-Wahrani was a Maghrebi Maliki scholar of Islamic law, active in North Africa from the end of the fifteenth century until his death.…
Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, Islamic scholar, author of the Oran fatwa
Sir Andrew Barton was a Scottish sailor from Leith. He gained notoriety as a privateer, making raids against Portuguese ships. He was killed in battle and memorialised in English a…
Andrew Barton, Scottish admiral (born 1466)
The Prince of Anhua rebellion, or the Prince of Anhua's uprising, refers to the uprising led by Zhu Zhifan, Prince of Anhua, against the reigning Ming emperor, Zhengde Emperor, and…
The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his inten
The Zhengde Emperor, personal name Zhu Houzhao, was the 11th emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1505 to 1521. He succeeded his father, the Hongzhi Emperor.
During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending t
Margaret Palaeologa, was the marchioness of Montferrat in her own right between 1533 and 1536. She was also Duchess of Mantua by marriage to Federico II, Duke of Mantua. Margaret a…
Margaret Paleologa, Sovereign Marchioness of Montferrat (died 1566)