1511

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1508 1509 1510 – 1511 – 1512 1513 1514

1511 Media

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  February 12: England's King Henry VIII celebrates the birth of his first son with the Westminster Tournament of jousting, commemorated by panorama of 36 paintings (pictured, a section of the Westminster Roll)

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  August 15: Malacca is captured by the forces of Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal.

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  Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg

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  GiorgioVasariSelbstporträt

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  Miguel Servet, Miguel de Villanueva (1511 - 1553) engraving

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  Detail of

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  Prince Francis of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (with nephew John behind him) by Claus Berg about 1530Place: Church of St. Canute’s, Odense, Denmark

1511 (MDXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1511th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 511th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 16th century, and the 2nd year of the 1510s decade. As of the start of 1511, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Births

• February 8 – Giorgio Vasari (d. 1574), Italian painter, architect and writer

Deaths

• January 9 – Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Greek classical scholar (b. 1424)
• February 11 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, eldest son of Henry VIII of England
• June 6 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah, Islamic scholar, author of the Oran fatwa
• July 2 – Şahkulu, leader of the Şahkulu Rebellion
• August 2 – Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader (b. c. 1466)
• September 6 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
• October 18 – Philippe de Commines, French-speaking Fleming in the courts of Burgundy and France (b. 1447)
• date unknown
  • Nicolás de Ovando (born 1460), Spanish soldier, governor of Hispaniola
  • Diego de Nicuesa, Spanish conquistador and explorer
  • Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish composer and music theorist (b. c. 1435)
  • Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (b. 1482)
  • Yusuf Adil Shah, founding leader of the Adil Shahi dynasty
• probable – Antoine de Févin, French composer (b. c. 1470)