1509
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Year 1509 (MDIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1509
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.
- 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.
- September 10 – 1509 Istanbul earthquake destroys 109 mosques and kills an estimated 10,000 people.
Undated
- Erasmus publishes his most famous work, In Praise of Folly.
- The Gulf of Bengal crossed by Diogo Lopes Sequeira. On the crossing he also reached Malacca.
- 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 India.
- Earliest known pocket watch made at Nuremberg, Germany by Peter Henlein
Ongoing
Births
- January 25 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
- July 10 – John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
- August 3 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (d. 1546)
- date unknown
- Nicholas Bacon, English politician (d. 1579)
- John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer (d. 1591)
- Stanisław Odrowąż, Polish noble (d. 1545)
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, lawyer (d. 1579)
- Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and natural scientist (d. 1588)
- Kamran Mirza, Mughal prince (d. 1557)
- probable
- John of Leiden, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1536)
Deaths
- January – Adam Kraft, sculptor and architect
- 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 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
- King João I of Kongo
- Thomas Long of Draycot, politician (b. c. 1451)
- João da Nova, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1460)
- Giovanni Antonio Sangiorgio, Italian cardinal
- Hans Seyffer, sculptor and woodcarver (b. c. 1460)
- İsa Necati, Ottoman poet
- Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (b. 1427)
- Viranarasimha Raya, ruler of the Vijayanagar empire