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Events of 1510

January - June

January - Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter.
January 23 - Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals himself.
February 27 - Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Goa.

Undated

Pskov is conquered by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy.

The Holy League is formed to defend the Italian States.

Peter Henlein builds the first pocketwatch.

Sir Thomas More becomes undersheriff of the City of London.

Paolo Cortese publishes De Cardinalatu, a manual for cardinals, including advice on palatial architecture - which inspired Thomas Wolsey in his construction work at Hampton Court Palace.

Construction of the Mary Rose is completed.

Births

March 25 - Guillaume Postel, linguist (d. 1581)

March 30 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566)

April 2 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1550)

July 22 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)

October 6

Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (d. 1555)
John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)

October 28 - Francis Borgia, General of the Jesuits (d. 1572)

date unknown

Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (d. 1547)
Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian founder of the Unitarian Church (d. 1579)
Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1577)
Solomon Luria, Polish-born Kabbalist (d. 1574)
Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
Bernard Palissy, French potter and writer
Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (d. 1590)
Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (d. 1571)

probable

Aloysius Lilius, Italian inventor of the Gregorian calendar (d. 1576)
Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (d. 1586)
Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist and author (d. 1565)
Lawrence Sheriff, Elizabethan gentleman and grocer (d. 1567)
Claudio Veggio, Italian composer

Deaths

February 28 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (b. c. 1460)

March 1 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. c. 1450)

March 10 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, German preacher (b. 1445)

May 17 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)

July 10 - Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (b. 1454)

July 27 - Giovanni Sforza, condottiero (b. 1466)

August 17

Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. c. 1462)
Richard Empson, English statesman

September 15 - Saint Catherine of Genoa (b. 1447)

September 18 - Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1488)

December 14 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)

December 31 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472)

date unknown

Agüeybaná, Taino chief
Ambrogio Calepino, Italian lexicographer (b. 1450)
Giorgione, Italian painter (b. c. 1477)
Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian writer (b. 1461)
Mihnea cel Rău, Prince of Wallachia
Florian Zamoyski, Polish nobleman

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