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Year 1519 (MDXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1519

January - June

July - December

  • July 4 - Martin Luther joins the debate regarding papal authority against John Eck at Leipzig.
  • 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.

    Undated

  • Erasmus publishes his Colloquia.
  • Martin Luther questions the infallibility of papal decrees.
  • Mannerism, artistic form appears in Italy and spreads.
  • Spanish find Barbados.
  • Cacao comes to Europe.
  • Panama founded in August 15th.
  • Havana moved from the Southern to Northern part of Cuba.
  • St Olav church is completed in Tallinn, Estonia.

    Births

  • February 5 - René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (d. 1544)
  • February 15 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (d. 1574)
  • 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)
  • date unknown
  • probable

    Deaths

  • January 12 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1459)
  • January 21 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (born 1475)
  • March 29 - Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (born 1466)
  • May 2 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (born 1452)
  • May 4 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
  • June 24 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (born 1480)
  • August 11 - Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (born 1465)
  • August 23 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (born c1465)
  • September 10 - John Colet, English churchman and educator (born 1467)
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