Explore 113 historical events from 1510–1519.
James IV was King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 until his death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. He inherited the throne at the age of fifteen on the death of his father, James II…
James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the…
The Battle of La Motta, also known as the Battle of Schio, Battle of Vicenza or Battle of Creazzo, took place at Schio, in the Italian region of Veneto, Republic of Venice, on 7 Oc…
War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice.
James IV was King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 until his death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. He inherited the throne at the age of fifteen on the death of his father, James II…
Notable Scottish casualties of the Battle of Flodden
George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros of Helmsley was an English peer.
George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, English nobleman
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 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: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish army…
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.
Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his the…
Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology.
Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, and author. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism. H…
Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
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)
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…
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)
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.
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…
Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
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)
Michael Servetus was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation,…
Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, cartographer, and theologian (died 1553)
Erasmus Reinhold was a German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagogue of his generation. He was born and died in Saalfeld, Saxony…
Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1553)
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