1519

Years:
1516 1517 1518 - 1519 - 1520 1521 1522
Decades:
1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s
Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

March 4 - Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico.
June 28 - Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556).
September 20 - Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe to circumnavigate the world.
November 8 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.

February 5 - René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (d. 1544)
February 16 - Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (died 1572)
February 17 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
March 31 - King Henry II of France (died 1559)
April 13 - Catherine de Medici, queen of Henry II of France (died 1589)
May 27 - Girolamo Mei, Italian humanist historian (died 1594)
June 6 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (died 1603)
June 12 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1574)
June 24 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (died 1605)
July 22 - Pope Innocent IX (died 1591)
Thoinot Arbeau, French priest and author (died 1596)
Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier (died 1579)
Nicholas Grimald, English poet (died 1562)
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida
Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese military commander (died 1563)
Edwin Sandys, English prelate (died 1588)
Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese warlord
Stanislaw Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died 1572)