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Year '1510' (MDX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1510

January - June

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1510

January - June

★ January - Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter.

★ January 23 - Henry VIII of England, then 18 years-old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals himself.

★ February 27 - Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Goa.

Undated

★ Conquest of Pskov by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy.

★ Formation of the Holy League to defend the Italian States.

★ Peter Henlein builds the first pocketwatch.

★ Sir Thomas More becomes undersheriff of the City of London.

★ Paolo Cortese publishes ''De Cardinalatu'', a manual for cardinals including advice on palatial architecture - which inspired Thomas Wolsey in his construction work at Hampton Court Palace.

★ Construction of the ''Mary Rose'' is completed.

Births

★ March 25 - Guillaume Postel, linguist (died 1581)

★ March 30 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (died 1566)

★ April 2 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (died 1550)

★ July 22 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (died 1537)

★ October 6 - Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (died 1555)

★ October 28 - Francis Borgia, General of the Jesuits (died 1572)

★ November 6 - John Caius, English physician (died 1573)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (died 1547)

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★ Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian founder of the Unitarian Church (died 1579)

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★ Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (died 1577)

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★ Solomon Luria, Polish-born Kabbalist (died 1574)

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★ Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (died 1551)

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★ Bernard Palissy, French potter and writer

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★ Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (died 1590)

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★ Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (died 1571)

★ ''probable''

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★ Aloysius Lilius, Italian inventor of the Gregorian calendar (died 1576)

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★ Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (died 1586)

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★ Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist and author (died 1565)

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★ Lawrence Sheriff, Elizabethan gentleman and grocer (died 1567)

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★ Claudio Veggio, Italian composer
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Deaths

★ February 28 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (born c1460)

★ March 1 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (born c1450)

★ March 10 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, German preacher (born 1445)

★ May 17 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (born 1445)

★ July 10 - Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (born 1454)

★ July 27 - Giovanni Sforza, condottiero (born 1466)

★ August 17

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★ Edmund Dudley, English statesman (born c1462)

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★ Richard Empson, English statesman

★ September 15 - Saint Catherine of Genoa (born 1447)

★ September 18 - Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born 1488)

★ December 14 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)

★ December 31 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1472)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Agüeybaná, Taino chief

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★ Ambrogio Calepino, Italian lexicographer (born 1450)

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★ Giorgione, Italian painter (born c1477)

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★ Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian writer (born 1461)

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★ Mihnea cel Rău, Prince of Wallachia

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★ Florian Zamoyski, Polish nobleman
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