* 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 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg ( d. 1571 )

* 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 )

* June 27 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect ( b. 1511 )

Giorgio Vasari (; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574 ) was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Renaissance artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.

* Giorgio Vasari ( Italian, 1511 – 1575 ) Known for his " Lives of the Artists "

Vasari said Bramante let him in secretly, and the scaffolding was taken down in 1511 from the first completed section.

* June 27-Giorgio Vasari, artist and biographer of artists ( born 1511 )

A painting of 1511, described by Vasari but never positively identified, is believed by many musicologists to show Verdelot in Venice with an Italian singer.

a satirical attack on the traditions of the European society, of the Catholic Church and popular superstitions, written in 1509, published in 1511, dedicated to his friend, Sir Thomas More, and inspired by De triumpho stultitiae, written by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli born at Tredozio, near Forlì.

* April 13 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor ( b. 1511 )

** Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer ( b. 1511 )

The enormous red-brick kremlin, one of the strongest and earliest preserved citadels in Russia, was built in 1508 – 1511 under the supervision of Peter the Italian.

He was elevated to the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire in May 1511, and in 1519, led a consortium of German and Italian businessmen that loaned Charles V 850, 000 florins ( about 95, 625 oz ( t ) of gold ) to procure his election as Holy Roman Emperor over Francis I of France.

** Cornelio Musso, Italian orator and writer ( born 1511 )

Tension between France and Rome was building during this period, eventually resulting in the Italian Wars and the formation of the Catholic League in 1511.

The scimitar proper was the Stradioti sabre, and the term was introduced into France by Philippe de Commines ( 1447 – 18 October 1511 ) as cimeterre, Italy ( especially the Venetian Republic who hired the stradioti as mercernaries ) as scimitarra, and England as cimeter or scimitar via the French and Italian terms.

Philosophy and Mathematics: Urbanus Averroista, commentator of Averroes ; Andrew Zaini ( 1423 ); Paul Albertini ( 1475 ), better known as Paolo Veneto ; Philip Mucagatta ( 1511 ); John Baptist Drusiani ( 1656 ), the " Italian Archimedes "; Benedict Canali ( 1745 ); Raymond Adami ( 1792 ); Angelus Ventura ( 1738 ).

Giovanni Battista Adriani ( 1511 or 1513 – 1579 ) was an Italian historian.

Nicola Vicentino ( 1511 – 1575 or 1576 ) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance.

* 1511: La Concorde des deux langages, referring to the French and Italian languages, urging cultural unity

In town, the Church of Saint John Baptist was built in 1511 and it has got inside some beautiful sculptures by Giovanni d ' Enrico a famous Italian artist ( 1559-1644 ).

Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.

Such are, among others, the Montini Altarpiece ( about 1506-1507 ) in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma ; the Madonna with Four Saints ( about 1511 ) in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, and the smaller Virgin and Child Enthroned with St. John the Baptist and the Magdalen ( about 1513 ) in the Louvre, which was Cima's last bequest as poet and landscape painter.

Philippe de Commines ( or de Commynes or " Philippe de Comines ", Latin Philippus Cominaeus ; 1447 – 18 October 1511 ) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France.

* October 27-Michael Servetus, theologian and humanist writer ( born 1511 ) ( executed )