1519

This page relates to the year 1519 Calendrier Julien.

Events

September 20th: Beginning of the round the world tour of Ferdinand Magellan ( Magalhaes ), Portuguese navigator with the service of the Spain (fine in 1522).

March 4th: Beginning of the Conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortez (the Cortes). It is the end of the Aztec Empire (fine in 1521).

the Cortes founds Veracruz (April). It is victorious kingdom of Tlaxcala (September) of which it is made an ally against the Aztèques. It gains Tenochtitlán (November 8th), the Aztec capital where the emperor Moctezuma II (1466 - 1520) recognizes the suzerainty of Charles Quint.

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda explores the coasts north and west of the Gulf of Mexico until the Río Pánuco. One must give up the hope to find a passage towards the Pacifique in this area.

the Portuguese settle with Negapatam, on the south-Eastern coast of the India and with Ceylon.

January 1st: Ulrich Zwingli starts to preach the reform with Zurich.
Charles Quint receives the homage of the the Cortes of Catalogne (February) and of Aragon (May).
June 28th: Charles Quint is elected emperor of the Saint Germanic Roman Empire against François Ier, thanks to the financier Jacob II Fugger (fine in 1556). François Ier, which aspired to the title, spent vainly 400 000 crowns.
July 4th: Dispute Leipzig. The vice-chancellor of the university of Ingoldstad, Johan Eck, critical theses of Luther on the Indulgence S.

the large-Master of the Ordre Teutonique proposes with Vassili III of Russia to join the anti-Turkish league. Vassili refuses.
Albert de Brandebourg-Ansbach, large Master of the Knights Teutoniques, after having sought the alliance of the Russia, declares the war with the Polish king Sigismond Ier of Poland ( December), then concludes an armistice from four years. Benefitting from the truce, it goes in Germany where it meets Luther which advises to him to transform the order (Ordenstaat) into a secular duchy.

Grand' Monarchy of France , Claude de Seyssel, 1515-1519.
Arrived at Paris of the first booklets of Luther.
Book of reason of the Middle-class man of Paris (Nicolas Versoris), of 1519 with 1530.
First edition of the Talmud to Venice by Daniel de Bomberg (1519-1523).
Conferences of Érasme, critical against the Catholic church and to its superstitions.

Beginning of the construction of the Castle of Chambord (fine in 1536).
Portrait of Boniface Amerbach , by Hans Holbein. The Amerbach family, installed with Basle, is one of the principal families of printers of the beginning of the 16th century.
the Crucifixion , fabric of Matthias Grünewald (1519 - 1520).
Fresques of the villa of Poggio has Caiano (Prato) carried out for the Médicis by the Pontormo (fine in 1521).

Jorge Reynel carries for the first time a scale of Longitude S (not measured) on a Portulan.

Planisphere of Lopo Homen. The America S form only one ground but the Brésil and the the Far East are fixed on the southern continent.

the large market of Tenochtitlán attracts daily to 60.000 people.
the election of Charles of Ghent to the empire (a million guilders) is financed by Jacob II Fugger and Welser, bankers of Augsburg (80%), Genoa (15%) and Florence (5%).
Beginning of fishing with the Cod with Saint-Malo.

February 16th: Gaspard de Coligny, admiral de France and politician Huguenot
February 24th: François of Lorraine, duke of Own way, French statesman
March 29th: François II of Mantoue, noble Italian, marquis de Mantoue (° August 10th 1466, 52 years)
March 31st: Henri II, king de France
April 13rd: Catherine de Médicis, queen of France

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