* 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.

* Alexander I of Kakheti ( 1476 – 1511 ), King of Kakheti

* 1511 – St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.

Bartolomeo Ammannati ( 18 June 1511 – 13 April 1592 ) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence.

* 1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician ( b. 1511 )

* 1481 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun ( d. 1511 )

* 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor, designed the Ponte Santa Trinita ( d. 1592 )

* 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect ( d. 1574 )

* 1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French.

# Margaret ( 29 September 1511 – 1577 ), married on 23 January 1530 George I, Duke of Pomerania and after his death in 1534 John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

During the reign of Kasym Khan ( 1511 – 1523 ), the Kazakh Khanate expanded considerably.

Between 1511 and 1523, Schwenckfeld served the Duchy of Liegnitz as an adviser to Duke Charles I ( 1511 – 1515 ), Duke George I ( 1515 – 1518 ), and Duke Frederick II ( 1518 – 1523 ).

* 1475 – Princess Anne of York, Countess of Surrey ( d. 1511 )

* 1511 – Spain and England ally against France.

* 1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.

One of the most influential works during this burgeoning period was Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, written between 1511 – 12 and published in 1532, after Machiavelli's death.

In short time, both Henry VIII, King of England ( 1509 – 47 ), and Maximilian I also joined the " Holy League of 1511.

The term was first used retrospectively by the Italian artist and critic Giorgio Vasari ( 1511 – 1574 ) in his book The Lives of the Artists ( published 1550 ).

* July 31 – Luis de Velasco, Viceroy of New Spain ( b. 1511 )

* October 7 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, consort of Christian III of Denmark ( b. 1511 )

Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg ( 9 July 1511 – 7 October 1571 ), consort of Christian III from 1525 and Queen consort of Denmark and Norway.

* January 15 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun ( d. 1511 )

* May 25 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat ( d. 1511 )

** Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet ( d. 1511 )

** Demetrius Chalcondyles, Greek scholar ( d. 1511 )

** Johannes Tinctoris, Flemish music theorist and composer ( approximate date ; d. 1511 )

** Philippe de Commines, Flemish historian ( d. 1511 )

First map of the island of Bermuda in 1511, made by Peter Martyr d ' Anghiera in his book Legatio Babylonica

* Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of Henry VIII, d. 1511

* Andrew Barton, Privateer Lord High Admiral of Scotland d. 1511

* Palmerin d ' Oliva — original anonymous text in Castilian: 1511

* Charles d ' Amboise, Lord of Chaumont, of Meillan and of Charenton ( 1473 – 1511 ), Marshal of France in 1506

About 1508, he married Margaret's niece, Anne Browne ( d. 1511 ), daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, Standard Bearer of England 1485 and Lady Lucy Neville, daughter of the Marquess of Montagu.

The document is a conveyance of lands bequeathed to Sheen Priory by the will of Hugh Denys ( d. 1511 ) to Syon ( BL Harley MS 4640, f. 15 )

In 1511, after Charles d ' Amboise's death, de la Palice became the French overall commander in Italy and was made Grand Master of France.

* Edmund Grey, 9th Baron Grey de Wilton ( d. 1511 )

* Leonardo da Prato ( d. 1511 ), condottiere

Mirandola fell in January 1511, the pope having taken personal command of the assault ; but d ' Amboise had been replaced by Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, who took back Concordia and Castelfranco, while the Papal army retreated to Casalecchio.

* Firstly, on 12 November 1511, to Elizabeth Grey ( c. 1482 – 1530 ), daughter of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle ( d. 1492 ).

Madeleine de La Tour d ' Auvergne ( c. 1501 – 28 April 1519 ) was a younger daughter of Jean III de La Tour ( 1467 – 28 March 1501 ), Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais, and Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendôme ( 1465 – 1511 ).

A Corrody, no doubt the same one, was held in this Priory in 1509 by Hugh Denys of Osterley ( d. 1511 ), Groom of the King's Close Stool to Henry VII .. On the death of Denys, Henry VIII transferred the Corrody (" in the King's gift by death of Hugh Denys ") to John Porth, another courtier.