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Year '1519' (MDXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1519

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1519

January - June

★ March 4 - Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico.

★ June 28 - Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556).

July - December

★ July 4 - Martin Luther joins the debate regarding papal authority against John Eck at Leipzig.

★ September 20 - Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe to circumnavigate the world.

★ November 8 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.

Undated

★ Erasmus publishes his Colloquia.

★ Martin Luther questions the infallibility of papal decrees.

★ Mannerism, artistic form appears in Italy and spreads.

★ Spanish find Barbados.

★ Cacao comes to Europe.

★ Panama founded in August 15th.

★ Havana moved from the Southern to Northern part of Cuba.

★ St Olav church is completed in Tallinn, Estonia.

Births

★ 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 (died 1572)

★ February 17 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)

★ March 31 - King Henry II of France (died 1559)

★ April 13 - Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (died 1589)

★ May 27 - Girolamo Mei, Italian humanist historian (died 1594)

★ June 6 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (died 1603)

★ June 12 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1574)

★ June 24 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (died 1605)

★ July 22 - Pope Innocent IX (died 1591)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Thoinot Arbeau, French priest and author (died 1596)

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★ Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch physician, linguist, and humanist (d. 1572)

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★ Nicholas Grimald, English poet (died 1562)

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★ Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese military commander (died 1563)

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★ Edwin Sandys, English prelate (died 1588)

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★ Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese warlord

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★ Stanisław Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died 1572)

★ ''probable''

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★ Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier (died 1579)

Deaths

★ January 12 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1459)

★ January 21 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (born 1475)

★ March 29 - Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (born 1466)

★ May 2 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (born 1452)

★ May 4 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)

★ June 24 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (born 1480)

★ August 11 - Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (born 1465)

★ August 23 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (born c1465)

★ September 10 - John Colet, English churchman and educator (born 1467)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ William Grocyn, English scholar (born 1446)

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★ Cho Kwangjo, Korean scholar(born 1482)

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★ Ambrosius Holbein, German painter (born 1494)

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★ Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Spanish explorer and cartographer (born 1494)
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