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

# 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 )

Cotechino dates back to around 1511 to Mirandola, where, whilst besieged, the people had to find a way to preserve meat and use the less tender cuts, so made the cotechino.

Mirandola fell in January 1511, the pope having taken personal command of the assault ; but d ' Amboise had been replaced by Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, who took back Concordia and Castelfranco, while the Papal army retreated to Casalecchio.

In 1510, he took command of the French forces fighting against Pope Julius II in the Romagna, for which he was excommunicated ; he failed to prevent Julius from capturing Bologna and Mirandola, and died of illness at Correggio during the 1511 campaign.

* Jean Bauhin ( 1511 – 1582 ): a French physician, who moved with his family to Basel after conversion to Protestantism.

There the couple resided until 1511, when her husband offered his sword to the League against the French.

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.

Jean and Gaspard were the sons of Jean Bauhin ( 1511 – 1582 ), a French physician who had to leave his native country on becoming a convert to Protestantism.

Cardinal Alidosi, whom he left behind to command the defense of the city, was no better liked by the Bolognese than Julius himself had been ; and when, on 23 May 1511, a French army commanded by Trivulzio arrived at the gates, they quickly surrendered.

By June 1511, most of the Romagna was in French hands ; the Papal army, disorganized and underpaid, was in no condition to prevent Trivulzio from advancing on Ravenna.

The new alliance rapidly grew to include not only Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, who abandoned any pretense of adhering to the League of Cambrai in hopes of seizing Navarre and Lombardy from Louis, but also Henry VIII of England ( who, having decided to use the occasion as an excuse to expand his holdings in northern France, concluded the Treaty of Westminster — a pledge of mutual aid against the French — with Ferdinand in November 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.

1470 – late 1511 or early 1512 ) was a French composer of the Renaissance.

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

Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours ( 10 December 1489 – 11 April 1512 ), also known as The Thunderbolt of Italy, was a French military commander noted mostly for his brilliant six-month campaign from 1511 to 1512 during the War of the League of Cambrai.

French forces had captured Bologna on 13 May 1511 and were under siege from a combined Papal-Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona, the Viceroy of Naples.

In rebellion against Julius II, he reentered Bologna in 1511 with the help of the French and ruled for only a year.

* Annibale II reentered the city in 1511 with the help of the French and ruled for a year, and was later assassinated.

Then there was a famous Spanish reworking of the French Prose Tristan, Libro del muy esforzado caballero Don Tristán de Leonís y de sus grandes hechos en armas first published in Valladolid in 1501, then republised in Seville in 1511, 1520, 1525, 1528, 1533 and 1534 ; additionally a second part, Tristan el Joven, was created which dealt with Tristan's son, Tristan of Leonis.

Charles d ' Amboise, Seigneur de Chaumont ( 1473 – 11 February 1511 ) was a French politician and military figure, who was the French governor of Milan during the reign of Louis XII, and a French commander during the War of the League of Cambrai.

The Venetians conquered it in 1420 after three days of siege, keeping it until 1511, when it fell to the French.

During this period he also completed two woodcut series, the Great Passion and the Life of the Virgin, both published in 1511 together with a second edition of the Apocalypse series.

Other works from this period include the thirty-seven woodcut subjects of the Little Passion, published first in 1511, and a set of fifteen small engravings on the same theme in 1512.

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.

The word " bowls " occurs for the first time in the statute of 1511 in which Henry VIII confirmed previous enactments against unlawful games.

File: Adam study-Michelangelo. jpg | Michelangelo-Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco ' The Creation of Man ' on the vault of the Sistine Chapel ( c. 1511 )

Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511, Ashmole Bestiary | The Ashmole Bestiary, Folio 21r, England ( Peterborough?

In August 1511 on behalf of the king of Portugal, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, which at the time was the hub of Asian trade.

In 1511, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar set out from Hispaniola to form the first Spanish settlement in Cuba, with orders from Spain to conquer the island.

Their family is notable for their bitter feud with the Orsini family over influence in Rome until it was stopped by Papal Bull in 1511 ; in 1571 the Chiefs of both families married nieces of Pope Sixtus V.

Evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 ( uncovered along with another bearing the date 1551 ) when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland.

A son, Henry, Duke of Cornwall, was born on New Year's Day 1511.

The Colony of " La Española " was organized as the Royal Audiencia of Santo Domingo in 1511.

Luther lived there as a student from 1501 to 1511 and, as a monk, from 1505 to 1511.

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.

The Portuguese were the first European colonial powers to establish themselves in Malaysia, capturing Malacca in 1511, followed by the Dutch.

In the book The Wild Frontier: Atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, amateur historian William M. Osborn sought to tally every recorded atrocity in the area that would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact ( 1511 ) to the closing of the frontier ( 1890 ), and determined that 7, 193 people died from atrocities perpetrated by whites, and 9, 156 people died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans.

Captured in 1511, Malacca became the springboard for further eastward penetration ; several years later the first trading posts were established in the Moluccas, or " Spice Islands ," which was the source for some of the world's most hotly demanded spices.