1511

Events

Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar|Diego Velázquez and Hernán Cortés conquer Cuba; Velázquez appointed Governor.

August 24 - Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers the Sultanate of Malacca.

St John's College, Cambridge founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort.

Births

January 1 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England

July 3 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (died 1574)

September 29 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian (died 1553)

October 22 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1553)

November 15 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (died 1536)

Bartolomeo Ammanati, Florentine architect and sculptor (died 1592)

Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Jesuits (died 1590)

Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, consort of Christian III from 1525 and Queen of Denmark and Norway (died 1571)

Kimotsuki Kanetsugu, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1566)

Amato Lusitano, Portuguese Jewish physician (died 1568)

Ippolito de' Medici, illegitimate only son of Cardinal Giuliano de' Medici (died 1535)

Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (died 1576)

Pierre Viret, Swiss reformed theologian (died 1571)

Luis de Velasco, Spanish viceroy of New Spain (died 1564)

Deaths

February 11 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England

August 2 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader (born c. 1466)

September 6 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (born 1481)

La Beata de Piedrahita, Spanish mystic

Demetrius Chalcondyles, Greek classical scholar (born 1424)

Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (born 1447)

Antoine de Févin, French composer (born 1470)

Diego de Nicuesa, Spanish conquistador and explorer

Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (born 1482)

Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish composer and music theorist (born 1435)