1510

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

* Pskov is conquered by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy.
* The Holy League is formed 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 (d. 1581)
* March 30 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566)
* April 2 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1550)
* July 22 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
* October 6
** Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (d. 1555)
** John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
* October 28 - Francis Borgia, General of the Jesuits (d. 1572)
*"date unknown"
**Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (d. 1547)
**Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian founder of the Unitarian Church (d. 1579)
**Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1577)
**Solomon Luria, Polish-born Kabbalist (d. 1574)
**Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
**Bernard Palissy, French potter and writer
**Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (d. 1590)
**Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (d. 1571)
*"probable"
**Aloysius Lilius, Italian inventor of the Gregorian calendar (d. 1576)
**Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (d. 1586)
**Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist and author (d. 1565)
**Lawrence Sheriff, Elizabethan gentleman and grocer (d. 1567)
**Claudio Veggio, Italian composer

Deaths

* February 28 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (b. c. 1460)
* March 1 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. c. 1450)
* March 10 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, German preacher (b. 1445)
* May 17 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)
* July 10 - Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (b. 1454)
* July 27 - Giovanni Sforza, condottiero (b. 1466)
* August 17
**Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. c. 1462)
**Richard Empson, English statesman
* September 15 - Saint Catherine of Genoa (b. 1447)
* September 18 - Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1488)
* December 14 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
* December 31 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472)
*"date unknown"
**Agüeybaná, Taino chief
**Ambrogio Calepino, Italian lexicographer (b. 1450)
**Giorgione, Italian painter (b. c. 1477)
**Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian writer (b. 1461)
**Mihnea cel Rău, Prince of Wallachia
**Florian Zamoyski, Polish nobleman