Calendar year
Ferdinand Magellan 's voyage around the world
November 8 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlan .
Year 1519 (MDXIX ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar , the 1519th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 519th year of the 2nd millennium , the 19th year of the 16th century , and the 10th and last year of the 1510s decade.
Events
January–March
April–June
July–December
July 4 – Martin Luther joins the debate regarding papal authority, against Johann Eck at Leipzig .
July 10 – The Prince of Ning rebellion begins, after Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty 's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing .
August 15 – Panama City is founded.
August 20 – Ming Dynasty Chinese philosopher and general Wang Yangming , governor of Jiangxi , defeats Zhu Chenhao , ending the Prince of Ning rebellion . Wang has expressed the intention of using fo–lang–ji cannons in suppressing the rebellion, probably the earliest reference in China to the breech-loading Frankish culverin .
September 20 – Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain with a fleet of five ships, to sail westbound to the Spice Islands .
October 12 – Hernán Cortés and his men, accompanied by 3,000 Tlaxcalans , enter Cholula .
November 8 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlan , and the court of Aztec ruler Moctezuma .
Date unknown
Births
Isabella Jagiellon
Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk
Catherine de' Medici
Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
January 1 – Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas , Spanish colonial administrator (d. 1593 )
January 18 – Isabella Jagiellon , queen consort of Hungary (d. 1559 )
February 5 – René of Châlon , Prince of the House of Orange (d. 1544 )
February 15 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés , first Spanish Governor of Florida (d. 1574 )
February 16 – Gaspard de Coligny , French Huguenot leader (d. 1572 )
February 17 – Francis, Duke of Guise , French soldier and politician (d. 1563 )
February 19 – Froben Christoph of Zimmern , author of the Zimmern Chronicle (d. 1566 )
March 4
March 17 – Thoinot Arbeau , French priest and author (d. 1595 )
March 22 – Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk , English noblewoman (d. 1580 )
March 31 – King Henry II of France (d. 1559 )[ 7]
April 13 – Catherine de' Medici , Italian noblewoman, queen consort of Henry II of France and regent of France (d. 1589 )[ 8]
May 27 – Girolamo Mei , Italian humanist historian (d. 1594 )
June 6 – Andrea Cesalpino , Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (d. 1603 )
June 12 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574 )
June 15 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset , illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1536 )
June 23 – Johannes Goropius Becanus , Dutch physician, linguist and humanist (d. 1572 )
June 24 – Theodore Beza , French theologian (d. 1605 )
July 20 – Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591 )[ 9]
September 23 – Francis, Count of Enghien , French military leader (d. 1546 )
October 14 – Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach , Princess of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and by marriage Electress Palatine (d. 1567 )
November 9 – Ogasawara Nagatoki , Japanese daimyō (d. 1583 )
November 22 – Johannes Crato von Krafftheim , German humanist and physician (d. 1585 )
date unknown
probable
possible
Deaths
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Leonardo da Vinci
January 12
February 6 – Lorenz von Bibra , Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Würzburg (b. 1459 )
March 29 – Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (b. 1466 )
April 15 – Henry, Count of Württemberg -Montbéliard (1473–1482) (b. 1448 )
April 18 – Sibylle of Bavaria , Electress Palatine consort (b. 1489 )
May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci , Italian inventor and artist (b. 1452 )[ 12]
May 4 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492 )[ 13]
May 13 – Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy , French nobleman and politician (b. 1475 )
June 2 – Philippe de Luxembourg , French Catholic cardinal (b. 1445 )
June 24 – Lucrezia Borgia , Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480 )[ 14]
July 13 – Zhu Youyuan , Ming dynasty politician (b. 1476 )
July 27 – Zanobi Acciaioli , librarian of the Vatican (b. 1461 )
August 11 – Johann Tetzel , German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465 )[ 15]
August 23 – Philibert Berthelier , Swiss patriot (b. c. 1465 )
September – John Colet , English churchman and educator (b. 1467 )
date unknown
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