1511

Year 1511 (MDXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1511

* August 24 - Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca. The Sultanate then establishes rule from Johor, starting decades of skirmishes against the Portuguese to regain the fallen city. While taking the city, the Portuguese slaughter a large community of Chinese merchants living there (mentioned by Zhang Xie writing a century later). Malacca is the first city in Southeast Asia to be taken by a Western nation, only gaining home rule in 1957 when it becomes part of Malaysia.
* November - The Treaty of Westminster creates an alliance between Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon against France.

Undated

* Diego Velázquez and Hernán Cortés conquer Cuba; Velázquez is appointed Governor.
* Duarte Barbosa arrives in India second time. He works as chief scribe in the factory of Cananor and as the liaison with the Indian rajah.
* Ferdinand II of Aragon observes that "one black can do the work of four Indians".
* Juan de Agramonte, a sailor from Spain, is thought to have possibly travelled to Newfoundland.
* St John's College, Cambridge is founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort.
* Taíno, an indigenous uprising occurs in southwestern Puerto Rico near Guánica.
* The first black slaves arrive in Colombia.
* The Spanish conquest of Yucatán begins.

Births

* January 1 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
* June 18 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Florentine architect and sculptor (d. 1592)
* July 3 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (d. 1574)
* July 9 - Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, consort of Christian III from 1525 and Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1571)
* September 29 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian (d. 1553)
* October 22 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
* November 15 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536)
*"date unknown"
**Amato Lusitano, Portuguese Jewish physician (d. 1568)
**Kimotsuki Kanetsugu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1566)
**Luis de Velasco, Spanish viceroy of New Spain (d. 1564)
**Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (d. 1576)
**Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Jesuits (d. 1590)
**Pierre Viret, Swiss reformed theologian (d. 1571)

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Deaths

* February 11 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
* August 2 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader (b. c. 1466)
* September 6 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
*"date unknown"
**Demetrius Chalcondyles, Greek classical scholar (b. 1424)
**Diego de Nicuesa, Spanish conquistador and explorer
**Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish composer and music theorist (b. c. 1435)
**La Beata de Piedrahita, Spanish mystic
**Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447)
**Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (b. 1482)
*"probable"
**Antoine de Févin, French composer (b. c. 1470)

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