1509

This page relates to the year 1509 Calendrier Julien.

Events

the son of Christophe Colomb, Diego Colomb, becomes viceroy of the Western Indies (fine in 1515). It begins the conquest of Cuba.
Twenty five missionaries Dominicain S are sent in America.
Officially, 15 480 people would have left to Americas since 1492. These figures are not very reliable and the clandestine ones are numerous.
John Pooch reached Newfoundland, and plants the flag of the crown of England in the name of Henri VIII.

May 17th: The Spaniards of Pedro Navarro take Oran (until in 1792) in North Africa.

the Séfarades Jacob Consino and Jacob Sasportas obtain that the Spaniards tolerate the Juifs of the two ports of Oran and Candle. They are employed in the customs and the translations, and allow the trade of gold and spices with the chiefs of tribes of the interior.

the Portuguese bombard the Arab counters of Mafia and Pemba and put Zanzibar at bag.
With an aim of loosening the pressure of the Islam which controls the exits of its kingdom towards the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, the queen of Ethiopia Eléni sends in embassy to Lisbon the métropolite of the Church of Ethiopia, the Armenian Mateus (Matthieu). He manages to join Alfonso de Albuquerque in India without the knowledge of the agents of Egypt while being made pass for a merchant of skins, then reached the Portugal at the end four years of navigation.

February 3rd: Naval battle of Diu, in India. The Portuguese of Francisco de Almeida eliminate the fleet Mamelouk thanks to their artillery and occupy the city.

the Portuguese reach Malacca.
Kasim, wire of Djani Beg becomes khan Kazakh (fine in 1518).
Beginning of the reign of Krishnadevarâya Tuluva, king de Vijayanâgara (fine in 1529). It consolidates the border of North then fight against the prince of Mysore and takes the fortress of Shivasamudram.

the conquests of Krishna Deva Raya are accompanied by a development of the administration. The emperor holds an absolute capacity. He is advised by the purohita and is assisted of a Prime Minister surrounded by senior officials with the hereditary loads. The provinces are controlled by nayaks , generally resulting from the imperial family. Each province is divided into of administrative units controlled by rajahs which reign according to the local traditions. They are however subjected to strict constraints: they cannot build fortresses without the authorization of the emperor, are held to attend the sumptuous festivals that the emperor gives, and two hundreds among them reside permanently at the capital where they constitute the court. Any failure with the law and order is punished by punishments relentless: mutilations, empalements, hanging by hook under the jaw.

January 3rd: Henri VIII marries Catherine d' Aragon, widow of his brother. He obtains pontifical exemptions.
January 12th: Schedule on the military organization of the kingdom of France.
January 18th: Battle of the course Finisterre
April 10th: Érard of Marck, Prince-bishop of Liege, receives the regalities of the emperor Maximilien I {{er}}, which confirms the privileges of the principality granted by its predecessors.
April 21st: Beginning of the reign of Henri VIII of England (fine in 1547).

April 27th: the Pape Jules II excommunicates Venice.
May 14th: Victoire of the League of Cambric carried out by Louis XII on the Republic of Venice, with Agnadel ( Agnadello ). The battle is a butchery which makes 400 dead French and 9000 in the opposing side.

After Agnadel, the pope proposes with Venetian to exonerate them provided that they grant freedom of movement to the Christian subjects on the Adriatique.
the pope receives the tender of Venice, which leads it to modify its policy: it creates the Sainte League in 1511 which plain the Spain, Venice, the Suisse, the Holy roman Empire and the England against the France.

June 8th: Pisa is taken again by Florence. Its inhabitants give up it in mass for the Sardinia, the Sicily and other areas.
September 14th: Earthquake with Istanbul (Small Apocalypse).

Compromised passed with Seville between the Conversos and crowns it Spain, which stipulates that in exchange of 20 000 ducats, the latter would be free to go to the Indies for trade names and periods of less than two years.
Louis XII of France into force gives the clauses of the Pragmatic Sanction which reduce the judicial and financial powers of the pope in France and limit his interventions in the choice of the high clergy to the profit of the king.
Venice loses Samos with the profit of the Turks.

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as it Sodoma: Christ with the column .
Raphaël painted the Argument of the Blessed Sacrament in the room of the Signature , in the apartments of Jules II (fine in 1511).
Four Books on the human proportions of Albrecht To last.
Matthias Grünewald becomes painter of court of the archbishop of Mainz (fine in 1526).
the Vierge enters the Virgins , fabric of Gerard David.

the first mill with Sucre of cane is in function in America.
the Ethiopia maintains a trade by caravans with the valley the the Nile and the Egypt.
Maximilien of Austria appendix mercury mines of Idria, in Carniole.
At the beginning of the reign of Henri VIII, the cases of the Treasury are full thanks to parsimony with Henri VII of England. The field of the king covers 20% of the English ground.
Venice finds its population of before the Black Death (120 000 inhabitants).

January 1st: Melchor Cano, Dominican monk , Theologist, Philosopher and Spanish bishop of the 16th century, which is attached to the current of thought of the École of Salamanque. († September 30th 1560).
July 10th: Jean Calvin, reforming religious and humanistic French.
August 3rd: Etienne Dolet, humanistic printer and French.
Ambroise Paré, surgeon and anatomist French († December 20th 1590)

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