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.
- 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.
Births
- February 16 – Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (d. 1572)
- March 31 – King Henri II of France (d.1559)
- April 13 – Catherine de Medici, Queen of France (d. 1589)
- June 12 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1575)
- June 15 – Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England (d. 1536)
- July 22 – Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
- Thoinot Arbeau, French priest and author (d. 1596)
Deaths
- January 12 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
- January 21 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer
- May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452)
- June 24 – Lucrezia Borgia, illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1480)
- August 11 – Johann Tetzel, German Dominican priest (b. 1465)
- Francesco II of Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1466)
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