1510

1510 (MDX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1510th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 510th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 16th century, and the 1st year of the 1510s decade. As of the start of 1510, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1507 1508 1509 – 1510 – 1511 1512 1513

1510 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1510 MDX
Ab urbe condita	2263
Armenian calendar	959 ԹՎ ՋԾԹ
Assyrian calendar	6260
Balinese saka calendar	1431–1432
Bengali calendar	917
Berber calendar	2460
English Regnal year	1 Hen. 8 – 2 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2054
Burmese calendar	872
Byzantine calendar	7018–7019
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4206 or 4146     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4207 or 4147
Coptic calendar	1226–1227
Discordian calendar	2676
Ethiopian calendar	1502–1503
Hebrew calendar	5270–5271
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1566–1567
- Shaka Samvat	1431–1432
- Kali Yuga	4610–4611
Holocene calendar	11510
Igbo calendar	510–511
Iranian calendar	888–889
Islamic calendar	915–916
Japanese calendar	Eishō 7 (永正７年)
Javanese calendar	1427–1428
Julian calendar	1510 MDX
Korean calendar	3843
Minguo calendar	402 before ROC 民前402年
Nanakshahi calendar	42
Thai solar calendar	2052–2053
Tibetan calendar	阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1636 or 1255 or 483     — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1637 or 1256 or 484

Events

• 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.
• Conquest of Pskov by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy.
• Formation of the Holy League to defend the Italian States.
• Peter Henlein builds the first pocketwatch.
• End of the War of the League of Cambrai (started 1508)
• Start of the War of the Holy League (ended 1513)

Births

• March 30 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (died 1566)
• April 2 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (died 1550)
• July 22 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (died 1537)
• October 6 – Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed 1555)
• November 6 – John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
• Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (died 1557)
• Francis Borgia, General of the Jesuits (died 1572)
• Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter (died 1547)
• Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (died 1579)
• Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (died 1586)
• Claude Goudimel, French composer and music theorist (died 1572)
• Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (died 1577)
• Aloysius Lilius, Italian inventor of the Gregorian calendar (died 1576)
• Solomon Luria, Polish-born Kabbalist (died 1574)
• Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (died 1586)
• Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (died 1551)
• Bernard de Palissy, French potter and writer
• Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (died 1590)
• Guillaume Postel, linguist (died 1581)
• Renee of France, daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany (died 1575)
• Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist and writer
• Lawrence Sheriff, Elizabethan gentleman and grocer (died 1567)
• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (died 1554)
• Claudio Veggio, Italian composer
• Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (died 1571)

Deaths

• February 28 – Juan de la Cosa, Spanish mapmaker and explorer (born c. 1460)
• March 1 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (born c. 1450)
• March 10 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, German preacher (born 1445)
• May 17 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (born 1445)
• August 17 – Edmund Dudley, English statesman
• December 14 – Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
• December 31 – Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1472)
• Agueybana, Taino chief
• Ambrogio Calepino, Italian lexicographer (born 1450)
• Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (born 1454)
• Richard Empson, English statesman
• Giorgione, Italian painter (born c. 1477)
• Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic, Bohemian writer (born 1461)
• Florian Zamoyski, Polish nobleman