1509

Year 1509 (MDIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
Decades:	1480s 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s
Years:	1506 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 1512

1509 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1509 MDIX
Ab urbe condita	2262
Armenian calendar	958 ԹՎ ՋԾԸ
Assyrian calendar	6259
Balinese saka calendar	1430–1431
Bengali calendar	916
Berber calendar	2459
English Regnal year	24 Hen. 7 – 1 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2053
Burmese calendar	871
Byzantine calendar	7017–7018
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4205 or 4145     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4206 or 4146
Coptic calendar	1225–1226
Discordian calendar	2675
Ethiopian calendar	1501–1502
Hebrew calendar	5269–5270
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1565–1566
- Shaka Samvat	1430–1431
- Kali Yuga	4609–4610
Holocene calendar	11509
Igbo calendar	509–510
Iranian calendar	887–888
Islamic calendar	914–915
Japanese calendar	Eishō 6 (永正６年)
Javanese calendar	1426–1427
Julian calendar	1509 MDIX
Korean calendar	3842
Minguo calendar	403 before ROC 民前403年
Nanakshahi calendar	41
Thai solar calendar	2051–2052
Tibetan calendar	阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1635 or 1254 or 482     — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1636 or 1255 or 483

February 3: Battle of Diu

Events

January–June

• February 3 – Battle of Diu: The Portuguese defeat a coalition of Indians, Muslims and Italians.
• April 21 – Henry VIII becomes King of England (for 38 years) on the death of his father, Henry VII.[1]
• April 27 – Pope Julius II places Venice under interdict and excommunication,[2] for refusing to cede part of Romagna to papal control.
• May 14 – Battle of Agnadello: French forces defeat the Venetians.
• June 11
  • Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
  • Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione, concerning the golden ratio, is published in Venice, with illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci.
• June 19 – Brasenose College, Oxford is founded by a lawyer, Sir Richard Sutton, of Prestbury, Cheshire, and the Bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth.
• June 24 – King Henry VIII of England and Queen Consort Catherine of Aragon are crowned.

July–December

• July 26 – Krishnadevaraya ascends the throne of the Vijayanagara Empire.
• September 10 – The Constantinople earthquake destroys 109 mosques and kills an estimated 10,000 people.
• September 11 – Portuguese fidalgo Diogo Lopes de Sequeira becomes the first European to reach Malacca, having crossed the Gulf of Bengal.
• November 4 – Afonso de Albuquerque becomes the governor of the Portuguese settlements in India.

Date unknown

• Erasmus writes his most famous work, In Praise of Folly.
• St Paul's School, London is founded by John Colet, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral.
• Royal Grammar School, Guildford, England, is founded under the will of Robert Beckingham.
• Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, England, is founded as a grammar school for boys.
• Basil Solomon becomes Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East.[3]

Births

John of Leiden

• January 1 – Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (d. 1573)
• January 2 – Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman (d. 1572)
• January 3 – Gian Girolamo Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1591)
• January 25 – Giovanni Morone, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1580)
• February 2 – John of Leiden, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1536)
• February 10 – Vidus Vidius, Italian surgeon and anatomist (d. 1569)
• March 27 – Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck (1539–1575) (d. 1575)
• April 23 – Afonso of Portugal, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1540)
• July 4 – Magnus III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Lutheran bishop of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin (d. 1550)
• July 10 – John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
• July 25 – Philip II, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German noble (d. 1554)
• August 3 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (d. 1546)
• August 7 – Joachim I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince (d. 1561)
• August 25 – Ippolito II d'Este, Italian cardinal and statesman (d. 1572)
• October 20 – Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, Scottish prince (d. 1510)
• November 4 – John, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels and Count of Glatz (d. 1565)
• date unknown
  • John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer (d. 1591)
  • Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (d. 1545)
  • Anneke Esaiasdochter, Dutch Anabaptist (d. 1539)
  • Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish conquistador (d. 1579)
  • Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and natural scientist (d. 1588)
  • Kamran Mirza, Mughal prince (d. 1557)

Deaths

Henry VII of England

Joao da Nova

• January – Adam Kraft, sculptor and architect
• January 27 – John I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1480–1509) (b. 1459)
• March 14 – Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio, Italian cardinal
• April 21 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
• April 27 – Margaret of Brandenburg, abbess of the Poor Clares monastery at Hof (b. 1453)
• May 28 – Caterina Sforza, countess and regent of Forli (b. 1463)
• June 29 – Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
• July 11 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1469)
• July 16
  • Joao da Nova, Portuguese explorer (b. 1460)
  • Mikalojus Radvila the Old, Lithuanian nobleman (b. c. 1450)
• December 1 – Lê Uy Mục, 8th king of the later Lê Dynasty of Vietnam (b. 1488)
• date unknown
  • Hans Seyffer, German sculptor and woodcarver (b. c. 1460)
  • Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (b. 1427)
  • Eleanor de Poitiers, Burgundian courter and writer
  • Viranarasimha Raya, ruler of the Vijayanagar Empire

References

1. Cheney, C. R.; Cheney, Christopher Robert; Jones, Michael (2000). A Handbook of Dates: For Students of British History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 9780521778459.
2. "On April 27, 1509, Pope Julius II excommunicated the..." tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
3. Wilmshurst, David (2019). "West Syrian patriarchs and maphrians". In Daniel King (ed.). The Syriac World. Routledge. p. 811.