1509

This article is about the year 1509.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1470s  1480s  1490s  – 1500s –  1510s  1520s  1530s
Years:	1506 1507 1508 – 1509 – 1510 1511 1512

1509 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1509 MDIX
Ab urbe condita	2262
Armenian calendar	958 ԹՎ ՋԾԸ
Assyrian calendar	6259
Bengali calendar	916
Berber calendar	2459
English Regnal year	24 Hen. 7 – 1 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2053
Burmese calendar	871
Byzantine calendar	7017–7018
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4205 or 4145     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4206 or 4146
Coptic calendar	1225–1226
Discordian calendar	2675
Ethiopian calendar	1501–1502
Hebrew calendar	5269–5270
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1565–1566
- Shaka Samvat	1431–1432
- Kali Yuga	4610–4611
Holocene calendar	11509
Igbo calendar	509–510
Iranian calendar	887–888
Islamic calendar	914–915
Japanese calendar	Eishō 6 (永正６年)
Julian calendar	1509 MDIX
Korean calendar	3842
Minguo calendar	403 before ROC 民前403年
Thai solar calendar	2051–2052

April 21: Henry VIII.

Year 1509 (MDIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• February 2 – Battle of Diu: The Portuguese defeat a coalition of Indians, Muslims and Italians.
• April 21 – Henry VIII becomes King of England (for 38 years) 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, University of 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 – Istanbul 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.

Date unknown

• Erasmus writes his most famous work, In Praise of Folly.
• The Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy is founded.
• Royal Grammar School, Guildford, is founded by Robert Beckingham.
• St Paul's School is founded by John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
• Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, is founded as a grammar school for boys.
• Afonso de Albuquerque becomes the governor of the portuguese settlements in India.
• Earliest known pocket watch made at Nuremberg, Germany by Peter Henlein.

Births

• January 1 – Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (d. 1573)
• January 2 – Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman (d. 1572)
• January 25 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
• February 2 – John of Leiden, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1536)
• February 10 – Vidus Vidius, Italian surgeon and anatomist (d. 1569)
• March 27 – Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1539-1575) (d. 1575)
• April 23 – Afonso of Portugal, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1540)
• July 10 – John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
• July 25 – Philip II, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken, German noble (d. 1554)
• August 3 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (d. 1546)
• August 7 – Joachim I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince (d. 1561)
• August 25 – Ippolito II d'Este, Catholic cardinal (d. 1572)
• October 20 – Arthur Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, Scottish prince (d. 1510)
• November 4 – John, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels and Count of Glatz (d. 1565)
• date unknown
  • John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer (d. 1591)
  • Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (d. 1545)
  • Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish conquistador (d. 1579)
  • Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and natural scientist (d. 1588)
  • Kamran Mirza, Mughal prince (d. 1557)

Deaths

• January – Adam Kraft, sculptor and architect
• March 14 – Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio, Italian cardinal
• April 21 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
• May 10 – Caterina Sforza, countess of Forli (b. 1463)
• June 29 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
• July – João da Nova, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1460)
• July 11 – William II, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1469)
• July 16 – Mikalojus Radvila the Old, Lithuanian nobleman (b. c. 1450)
• October 25 – João II of Portugal, King of Portugal (b. 1455)
• date unknown
  • Hans Seyffer, sculptor and woodcarver (b. c. 1460)
  • Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (b. 1427)
  • Viranarasimha Raya, ruler of the Vijayanagar empire