1519

November 8Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlan.
September 20: Ferdinand Magellan begins his voyage around the world with a fleet of five ships.
1519 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1519
MDXIX
Ab urbe condita2272
Armenian calendar968
ԹՎ ՋԿԸ
Assyrian calendar6269
Balinese saka calendar1440–1441
Bengali calendar925–926
Berber calendar2469
English Regnal year10 Hen. 8 – 11 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2063
Burmese calendar881
Byzantine calendar7027–7028
Chinese calendar戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4216 or 4009
    — to —
己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
4217 or 4010
Coptic calendar1235–1236
Discordian calendar2685
Ethiopian calendar1511–1512
Hebrew calendar5279–5280
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1575–1576
 - Shaka Samvat1440–1441
 - Kali Yuga4619–4620
Holocene calendar11519
Igbo calendar519–520
Iranian calendar897–898
Islamic calendar924–926
Japanese calendarEishō 16
(永正16年)
Javanese calendar1436–1437
Julian calendar1519
MDXIX
Korean calendar3852
Minguo calendar393 before ROC
民前393年
Nanakshahi calendar51
Thai solar calendar2061–2062
Tibetan calendarས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་
(male Earth-Tiger)
1645 or 1264 or 492
    — to —
ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Earth-Hare)
1646 or 1265 or 493

Year 1519 (MDXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday 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

  • April 21 (Maundy Thursday) – Hernán Cortés reaches San Juan de Ulúa, and sets foot the next day (Good Friday) on the beach of modern-day Veracruz.[4]
  • May 4Giulio de' Medici, who will later become Pope Clement VII becomes the Duke of the Florentine Republic upon the death of his father, Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino.[5]
  • June 27 – The Leipzig Debate begins at the Pleissenburg lecture hall in the German city of Leipzig in Saxony, as Martin Luther defends his ideas on the Protestant Reformation against challenges by Johann Eck, the German leader of the anti-Reformation movement.[6] While there, he is challenged to a theological debate by Johann Eck, the German leader of the anti-Reformation movement. The debate lasts until July 15 and gains new followers to Luther's theology.
  • June 28King Carlos I of Spain is elected as the new Holy Roman Emperor and takes the regnal name of Charles V. He will reign until 1556).

July–September

  • July 4Martin 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.
  • July 26 – King Charles of Spain issues a royal order prohibiting navigator Rui Faleiro from participating in the Magellan expedition, after Portugal's ambassador to Spain reports that Faleiro is suffering from a nervous breakdown.[7]
  • August 10 – The Magellan expedition departs from Seville in Spain.[8]
  • August 15Panama City is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila.[9]
  • August 20Ming 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 20Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain with a fleet of five ships and a crew of 270 men, to sail westbound to the Spice Islands.

October–December

Date unknown

  • The first civil revolt in Anatolia takes place, led by Alevi preacher Celâl.
  • The Spanish invade Barbados.
  • Spanish conquistador and founder of Panama City, Gaspar de Espinosa, sails up the Pacific coast from Panama to Nicaragua, landing at the Gulf of Nicoya.[13]
  • Havana moves from the southern to the northern part of Cuba.
  • A large pandemic spreads from the Greater Antilles into Central America, and perhaps as far as Peru in South America. This widespread epidemic kills off much of the indigenous populations in these areas (the first widely documented epidemic in the New World).[14]
  • Central Mexico Amerindians' population reaches 25.3 million.
  • The Mexican Indian Wars begin.
  • Cacao comes to Europe.
  • St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn is completed in Estonia.
  • The first recorded fatal accident involving a gun in England is recorded at Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Births

Isabella Jagiellon
Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk
Catherine de' Medici
Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

Deaths

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Leonardo da Vinci

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