1509
Year 1509 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.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 on the death of his father, Henry VII.
- April 27 - Pope Julius II places Venice under interdict and excommunication, 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.
Births
January 1 - Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer January 2 - Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman January 3 - Gian Girolamo Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal January 25 - Giovanni Morone, Italian Catholic cardinal February 2 - John of Leiden, Dutch Anabaptist leader February 10 - Vidus Vidius, Italian surgeon and anatomist March 27 - Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck April 23 - Afonso of Portugal, Roman Catholic cardinal July 4 - Magnus III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Lutheran bishop of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin July 10 - John Calvin, French religious reformer July 25 - Philip II, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German noble August 3 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer August 7 - Joachim I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince August 25 - Ippolito II d'Este, Italian cardinal and statesman October 20 - Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, Scottish prince November 4 - John, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels and Count of Glatz date unknown* John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer * Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble * Anneke Esaiasdochter, Dutch Anabaptist * Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish conquistador * Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and natural scientist * Kamran Mirza, Mughal princeDeaths
January - Adam Kraft, sculptor and architect January 27 - John I, Count Palatine of Simmern March 14 - Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio, Italian cardinal April 21 - King Henry VII of England April 27 - Margaret of Brandenburg, abbess of the Poor Clares monastery at Hof May 28 - Caterina Sforza, countess and regent of Forli June 29 - Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of Henry VII of England July 11 - William II, Landgrave of Hesse July 16 * Joao da Nova, Portuguese explorer * Mikalojus Radvila the Old, Lithuanian nobleman December 1 - Lê Uy Mục, 8th king of the later Lê Dynasty of Vietnam date unknown* Hans Seyffer, German sculptor and woodcarver * Shen Zhou, Chinese painter * Eleanor de Poitiers, Burgundian courter and writer* Viranarasimha Raya, ruler of the Vijayanagar Empire
